Glenn Linderman wrote:
> But you need to discuss the initial condition: I'd guess you need
>.....
> =end all begin perl
I like it!
> This would restrict data from containing lines beginning with =, or at
> least lines
> beginning with =end, =begin, =handle, or =for. Could "escape" with \=
> or == or ???
Yes; I regard that as hardly a showstopper. I mean, as it is,
a __DATA__ section can't contain a bare __END__ ...
But, um, whatever happened to the fact that pod tokens have to be
paragraph-delimited? I think that the "=end foo" line in the following
is not noticed by pod processors, but maybe I'm out of it:
=begin data
=end foo
more data
=end data
Now, I suppose that =data would be a synonyms for
=end all begin data, and would be a replacement for __DATA__
--
John Porter
