#
# As a special case, options in the task's option-hash whose names
# begin with an asterisk are taken to be persistent: they are set into
-# the Connection (with the leading hash removed) and deleted from the
-# task's option-hash so that they will NOT be reset the next time this
-# function is called.
+# the Connection (with the leading asterisk removed) and deleted from
+# the task's option-hash so that they will NOT be reset the next time
+# this function is called.
#
sub set_options {
my $this = shift();