Re: RFC: multiline comments

[John Barnette]

Michael Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:28:08PM -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
> > Unlike many programming languages Perl does not currently implement true
> > multiline comments. This can be confusing/tedious to programmers. This could
> > be solved by adding a syntax to Perl 6 that would allow for true multiline
> > comments.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you consider to be a "true multiline comment", but
> Perl definitely has them by my definition.
> 
> =pod
> 
>  Hi, this is a multiline comment.
> 
> =cut

The obvious problem with this, of course, is that pseudo-multilines that
use this technique show up in the POD documentation for the program /
module.  While this is sometimes desirable, it seems like a overload.

~ j.