my $x = 2; 
    Comments beginning with a backtick and one or more
    opening bracketing characters are embedded comments.
    They can span more than one line…
)
my $y = 
    Using more than one bracketing character lets you include
    an unmatched close bracket, like this: }
}}
    Unicode characters with either bidirectional mirrorings or
    Ps/Pe/Pi/Pf properties." ⁆ 
=begin comment
Pod is the successor to Perl 5's POD. This is the simplest way
to use it for multi-line comments. For more about Pod, see
Synopsis 26:
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S26.html
=end comment