Apache Reference: mod_perl, =pod

=pod

Begin Plain Old Document (POD) Format Section
Syntax: =pod
Example: =pod
Since: Apache 1.2

This convenience directive opens a section ending with =cut that Apache previously skipped. The intention is to allow Perl programmers to document Apache configuration files in the same way they document Perl code. That is, the =pod and =cut directives resemble the Perl language commands with the same names.