Well, if there's a change to include multi line comments, you might as well choose something that doesn't look like what its not and introduce specific syntax (although POD comments have the advantage of not breaking backward compatibility), it's not just about the parsers, it's also about people reading the code (when you get used to POD containing useless code, you may ignore perfectly useful documentation embeded in the code). And well, if the feature still isn't included in perl after all those years, it's certainly not because no one ever thought of a solution, it's on purpose (I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Larry Wall doesn't like them, for some reasons (and there are good reasons)).

In reply to Re^5: Comment blocks & private methods by Eily
in thread Comment blocks & private methods by misterperl

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