Re: RFC: multiline comments

[John Barnette]

Michael Fowler wrote:
> 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

...and there are a lot WORSE ways to do this in current Perl:

sub multiline-comment {}

multiline-comment(<<END);

        Okay, this is my comment.
        Nasty.

END

So very much better to have a nice standard syntax and stop taking
advantage of Perl's willingness to bend over backwards. ;-)

~ j.