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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
February 4, 2000 14:57
Subject:
Re: proposed perlpod.pod patch
Message ID:
20000204175312.I253918@linguist.dartmouth.edu
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:42:32PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Ronald J Kimball writes:
> : 
> : C<< 
> :    if ($x < $y) {
> :      print "Hello!\n";
> :    }
> : >>
> : 
> Why would you ever put something like that into a filled paragraph
> that is throwing away all the newlines anyway?  If you want a multiline
> chunk of code you would just put it in a verbatim paragraph.  The above
> just turns into "if ($x < $y) { print "Hello!\n"; }" inlined into the
> paragraph.

Er...  That's a good question.

Ronald

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