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From: "Rob Dixon" <rob.dixon@gmx.com>
> The documentation that John referred you to recommends
>
> =begin comment
> :
> =end
>
> Which may be a trifle awkward, but I'm sure there are worse things that
> happen
> to you in your day. It takes less than a second to type, and if you do it
> a lot
> you could set up a macro in your editor.
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
Even the POD documentation says that in the same perldoc -q ...:
"""
The pod directives cannot go just anywhere. You must put a pod directive
where the parser is expecting a new statement, not just in the middle of
an expression or some other arbitrary grammar production.
"""
Here is an example that doesn't work:
if (1) {
=begin comment
print "ok";
=end comment
}
It gives the following error:
Missing right curly or square bracket at E:\zzz.pl line 11, at end of line
If the user uses the not recommended
=start
...
...
=cut
then it simply works, at least until a newer version of perl will decide
that this should give an error.
Octavian
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