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Among other things, POD does not support indentation

Sure it does -- in a Pod format block.

=begin someformat

This comment
    can be indented
        as much as I want

=end someformat

=cut
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That said, I agree otherwise with your point that Perl doesn't support multi-line comments. Pod can be used for multi-line comments, but Perl and Pod are really two separate languages that can live in the same file. The Perl parser and Pod parsers just choose to pay attention to different languages.

-xdg

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In reply to Re^2: Multi-line comments in perl code? by xdg
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