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Postings from February 2001
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:03:26PM -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote: > | =block comment > | #!/usr/local/bin/perl > | $junk = 0; > | $j2 = 0; > | =cut > > "=block" is not valid pod. Even so, it does look like you have uncovered a > bug, because the =pod/=cut pair, which should work, does the same thing. I remember noticing that this would probably happen on my travels through toke.c; I think it's something like this: (From memory) The POD-skipping mechanism is the same as the perl -x text-skipping mechanism, and hence #!/.*/perl interrupts both. POD skipping shouldn't set Perl_doextract, but should use a different variable. -- The complex-type shall be a simple-type. ISO 10206:1991 (Extended Pascal)