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Postings from January 2001
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.thayer.da rtmouth.edu> whispered: | | Correct me if I'm wrong, but the perl interpreter doesn't know or care what | is valid POD and what isn't. All it looks for is an equal sign followed by | an identifier. You're not wrong. The perlpod man page suggests =pod/=cut and =head1/=cut as the ways to embed pod within scripts. In fact, it says that =pod "does nothing beyond telling the compiler to lay off parsing code through the next =cut". -spp