Hello,

I have perl-5.6.1 and the above code does not work because after stripping the comments, it looks like:

<<
this is a 
multiline
comment
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which is clearly wrong and the compiler complains. To get around this, you need to use something like:

<<C;
this is a 
comment
C
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or, if you really want the hash sign, do:

<<'#';
this is a
comment
#
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But in neither case does the code run cleanly and pass warning about "Useless use of a constant in void context".

Btw, for me, I never really liked multiline comments. Even in C, my comments look like:

/*
 * This is a 
 * Multiline
 * Comment
 */
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Which looks ugly compared to perl's comments (or ada's even).

Aziz,,,