How can I comment out a large block of perl code?

[Dan Jacobson]

$ perldoc -q 'How can I comment out a large block of perl code?' says
to use =begin comment text, =end comment text, but I find the =end
comment text does not stop the comment, printing only "1":
print 1;

=begin comment text

all of this stuff

here will be ignored
by everyone

=end comment text

print 2;

Wait, he meant to say use a =cut instead of =end comment text!

Please report a bug for me, my bugs just go into a black hole.

[Yury Kopyl]

Dan Jacobson -> "How can I comment out a large block of perl code?" :

DJ> $ perldoc -q 'How can I comment out a large block of perl code?'
DJ> says to use =begin comment text, =end comment text, but I find the
DJ> =end comment text does not stop the comment, printing only "1":
DJ> print 1;

DJ> =begin comment text

DJ> all of this stuff

DJ> here will be ignored by everyone

DJ> =end comment text

DJ> print 2;

DJ> Wait, he meant to say use a =cut instead of =end comment text!

I use next construction:

=rem
bla-bla-bla
=cut

Yury Kopyl aka hrg | [url]http://id.totem.ru[/url] | [TEAM Nemiroff ?????]

[Anno Siegel]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:

> $ perldoc -q 'How can I comment out a large block of perl code?' says
> to use =begin comment text, =end comment text, but I find the =end

[snip]

> Wait, he meant to say use a =cut instead of =end comment text!

It's probably a bug worth reporting.

> Please report a bug for me, my bugs just go into a black hole.

What do you mean? Some Cabale? Someone in the perlbug process is throwing
out your reports?

Your reports have the same chance to be accepted than everybody else's.
An accompanying patch increases the chance considerably. Otherwise,
doc patches are sometimes worked into the next version of the doc without
tracing each change back to every reporter. Have you looked if your
suggestions have been incorporated this way?

Anno