in reply to Perl equivalent of C-style

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