Re: perlfaq7: How can I comment out a large block of perl code?

_brian_d_foy <[email protected]> wrote:

> * apparently the pod formatters (i.e. perldoc, pod2man) actually
> don't respect the =for directive.  They do understand =begin
> though.

Isn't the problem actually that (according to perlpod), =for 
applies only to a single paragraph?  Not that that affects the 
fix, but it shouldn't be blamed on faulty formatters.

| That is, with "=for", you can have only one paragraph's worth
| of text (i.e., the text in "=fo[r] targetname text..."), but
| with "=begin targetname" ... "=end targetname", you can have
| any amount of stuff inbetween.

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Keith C. Ivey <[email protected]>
Washington, DC