[Python-ideas] Multi-line comment blocks.

[David Gates]

A Perl nested comment:

=for
  Comment
  =for
    Nested comment
  =cut
=cut

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:47 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 16/06/2012 01:28, David Gates wrote:
>
>> Perl, Ruby, Lisps, OCaml, F#, Haskell, and I believe Pascal.  There are
>> probably others.  None of these use significant indentation; they're
>> just smart enough to not ignore beginning delimiters within multi-line
>> comments.
>>
>>  In Pascal, comments start with "{" or "(*" and end with "}" or "*)".
>
> How do you write a nested comment in Perl? As far as I'm aware, it
> doesn't have nested comments either.
>
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