At 10:30 AM 3/27/2001 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
Same here. All the C comments ought not be picked up. /*=pod and =cut*/
pairs aren't a bad thing to go with, though.
Dan
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