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Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 14 12:36:02 2006 New Revision: 10940 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarified that comments may not contain unspace. agentzh++ and luqui++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Mon Aug 14 12:36:02 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 10 Aug 2006 + Last Modified: 14 Aug 2006 Number: 2 - Version: 63 + Version: 64 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -210,6 +210,22 @@ =item * +An unspace may contain a comment, but a comment may not contain an unspace. +In particular, end-of-line comments do not treat backslash as significant. +If you say: + + #\ (... + +it is an end-of-line comment, not an embedded comment. Write: + + \ #( + ... + ) + +to mean the other thing. + +=item * + In general, whitespace is optional in Perl 6 except where it is needed to separate constructs that would be misconstrued as a single token or other syntactic unit. (In other words, Perl 6 follows the standard