Re: RFC: multiline comments

[Johan Vromans]

"Michael Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Unlike many programming languages Perl does not currently implement true
> multiline comments. This can be confusing/tedious to programmers.

I fail to see this. What is confusing?
As has been pointed out earlier, with multi-line comments like in C or
Java, programmers will often use:

  /* blah blah blah
   * more comments blah blah
   * more comments blah blah
   * more comments blah blah
   */

The only (and dangerous!) use for multi-line comments is to
(temporarily) disable a piece of code:

   ....
   /* this code is not finished yet
   ...code...
   */
   ....

Well, my editor has no problems to put #'s in front of a section of
lines, nor to remove them. And it has the added advantage that you can
actually _see_ which lines of code are disabled. 

-- Johan