This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Tweak POD's CE<lt>E<gt> =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 280 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head1 ABSTRACT CE<lt>E<gt> is not as intuitive as it could be. =head1 DESCRIPTION In Perl 5.6.0, we altered the behaviour of the CE<lt>E<gt> construct in POD, so that you could say C<CE<lt>E<lt> ... E<gt>E<gt>> to avoid the problem that C<< $foo->bar >> would be ended by the arrow. However, this isn't too Perlish, and there's an easier solution; give the CE<lt>E<gt> the same semantics as a single quoted string with C<q//>. That is: =over 1 =item * Do away with the need to escape stuff inside CE<lt>E<gt>, because that stops you cutting and pasting the code. =item * Allow the use of alternate delimiters to avoid the arrow problem. C<$xyz> C/$foo->bar/ =back =head1 IMPLEMENTATION Just some tweaks to C<POD::Parser>, haha. =head1 REFERENCES None.