Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 11:01:23 2006 New Revision: 10676 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: Clarified unspace ramifications. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Mon Aug 7 11:01:23 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 2 Aug 2006 + Last Modified: 7 Aug 2006 Number: 2 - Version: 57 + Version: 58 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ the line in any situation where a newline might confuse the parser, regardless of the currently installed parser. (Unless, of course, you override the unspace rule itself...) Although we say that the -unspace hides the whitespace from the parser, line numbers are still counted. +unspace hides the whitespace from the parser, line numbers are still counted +if the unspace contains one or more newlines. All other line-oriented +processing is suppressed, however--including pod directives and heredoc +boundaries. =item *
