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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.
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