>> Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having it in the beginning of the line? > > Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the > programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate. >
Is it not possible to skip the commented sections by the parser? Why have every other popular language, that i know, multiline comments included without any problems? It would be very useful for better developing with perl. If you would use a mlc like =# #= where the opening tag must stay on the beginning of the line and you would leave complete the line on closing tag #= also commented you could put it into perl5 and none existing script or module should get broken. Christian
