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Re: [perl #47027] Documentation: BEGIN, END docs in wrong section

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From:
Reini Urban
Date:
May 6, 2012 06:32
Subject:
Re: [perl #47027] Documentation: BEGIN, END docs in wrong section
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On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Denis Howe <denis.howe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri 2012-05-04 07:13:17, denis.howe@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> The section "BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and END" in the
>> "perlmod" docs has nothing to do with modules and should
>> be moved to the "perlsyn" "Compound Statements" section
>> where any reasonable person would expect to find it.

Any reasonable person is expected to find it the file where it was
for the last 20 years or so.
Moving it to perlsyn sounds wrong. perlmod is not ideal, but it's the
nearest match we have.

And its referenced in multiple pods on CPAN this way.
-- 
Reini Urban
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