Re: multiline comments

[Michael Mathews]

Tom Christiansen responded:

> One argument *against* intra-token-sequence multiline comments is that
they
> are harder to see, and thus render readers of the code more prone to
> misunderstand it.  Is this worth really promoting?

<snip>

> Settling on one
> pod target for multiline comments, and then defining the =for and =end of
> that target to implicitly =cut back to code, would seem to address both of
> these issues

I am prone to agree with this. I would be willing to promote the requirement
of starting and ending multiline comments on their own line. Maybe something
like this (this will not work in Perl 5):

code to execute
=#
some
comments to
ignore
=#
more code to execute

And this would also be more backwards similar.

--Michael