No, there isn't. A cheap way to get the same effect is to
use Perl's
POD (Plain Old Documentation) facility, but I would
rather use my text editor to insert #'s at the beginning of
all the lines in a block. Then it's absolutely obvious
which lines are commented out.
=pod
Everything up to the cut is not parsed by perl
print while @blah;
my @slurp = <FH>;
=cut