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Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 10 19:34:44 2006 New Revision: 8638 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Force # on the left margin to be line-end comment regardless of brackets. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Mon Apr 10 19:34:44 2006 @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ characters, however, such as the corner quotes above.) Brackets may be nested following the same policy as ordinary quote brackets. +As a special case to facilitate commenting out sections of code with +C<s/^/#/>, C<#> on the left margin is always considered a line-end +comment rather than an embedded comment, even if followed by a +bracketing character. + =item * For all quoting constructs that use user-selected brackets, multiple,