Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 02:58 PM 3/26/2001 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> >Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> > > Perhaps we could teach pod that /* was alias for =pod
> > > and */ an alias for =cut ?
> >
> >or possibly
> >
> >/*=foo is an alias for =foo,
> >and */ is an alias for =cut only after a /*= has been encountered.
>
> I think I'd rather we built a simple extractor rather than teach pod about
> how to extract itself from C comments, but if we're going to do that, tell
> it that */ is an alias for =cut, and that it should strip out leading /* on
> lines...
I'm happy think that we're using a special extractor rather than pod -
cf embed.pl producing perlapi.pod. However, I'd rather a plain ^/*...^*/
not be picked up.
