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by staunton 953 days ago
It has lots of comments inside the regexes. How would this better comment support look like?
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These are not technically "comments inside the regexes", that would be something like the "Delete (most) C comments." regex here: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#/x-and-/xx

Here, instead, they've used string juxtaposition cleverly to write comments between parts of the regex/string. It effectively serves the same purpose though.