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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:06:29 -0600, Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:17:20PM -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote: >> However, I'm curious about why a newline isn't allowed > >Cuz then it entails non-trivial changes to me code ;-) Otehrwise its a But there is a very valid reason for allowing newline after a C<< Assume you have a C<< sequence like this >> in your POD. Someone later edits the text in mid-paragraph and then needs to reflow it to get the line lengths back to sensible values. The editor might think that right after C<< is a valid place to insert a linebreak (because there is already whitespace there). This would now render the POD formatting invalid, which is a very bad thing to do. I hope you'll find the tuits to allow newlines after C<< :-) -JanThread Previous | Thread Next