Not like in C or C++, Perl doesn't have multiline comments. However, Perl does have POD, and you could do something like:

=begin comment

Code to be outcommented.

=end comment
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Just make sure that the code you are outcommenting doesn't have a =cut line.

Of course, with any decent editor, putting # at the beginning of each line of a selected block (or removing them) is a piece of cake.

And there's Acme::Comment, which would allow you to use C style comments, but that uses a simple source filter and it could filter out code that only looks like a comment, but isn't.

Abigail