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Unnecessary is a matter of opinion really.

At the time, I was operating under the premise that you could use Perl's switch statement (given/when).

The fact is that this piece of code behaves differently when a comment is changed and I find this unsettling to say the least.

I concur

Why wouldn't the first thing a source filter do is remove lines beginning with #?

Aside from the fact that it only remove a portion of comments, it would break

print <<'__EOI__'; ########### # Heading Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. __EOI__
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