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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
April 22, 2003 19:39
Subject:
Re: slice autoextending ? revised doc patch
Message ID:
20030423023923.GB1316864@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:33:09PM -0500, david nicol wrote:
> Benjamin Goldberg has pointed out that one must escape
> the GT in the GE in the doc patch I wrote, or use double
> angle brackets instead of single.  Here is a revised patch,
> using E<gt> for maximum backwards compatibility, since perldoc
> perlpod says the multiple angle bracket thing is newish.

C<< >> was new in 5.6.  It is already in use throughout the core
documentation.  I don't think it makes much sense to add new uses of E<gt>
instead.

Ronald

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