<%doc>
This is a mason component. # This is a comment.
</%doc>
<%args>
$color # this argument is required! $size => 20 # default size $country => undef # this argument is optional, default value is 'undef' @items => (1, 2, 'something else') %pairs => (name => "John", age => 29)
</%args>
% # A random block of Perl code <%perl>
my @people = ('mary' 'john' 'pete' 'david');
</%perl>
% # Note how each line of code begins with the mandatory % % foreach my $person (@people) {
Name: <% $person %>
% }