On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > On 2021-08-06 5:01 p.m., Chris Prather wrote: > >>On Aug 6, 2021, at 2:58 PM, Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>I don't think it's comparable. Comments are parsed by the perl > >>interpreter, but POD is not, except to find the end of the POD. > > > >Additionally comments don???t as far as I know have a way to declare their > >encoding. > Question: Is there ever a real life scenario where a single source file is > not entirely the same encoding? Sure. Some code, in utf8, and then a binary blob in __DATA__ which the utf8 code reads and parses. It's not good practice, but it's what you had to do to easily distribute data in a CPAN distribution before File::ShareDir::Install existed. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life -- Samuel JohnsonThread Previous | Thread Next