TITLE

Tweak POD's C<>

VERSION

  Maintainer: Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>
  Date: 24 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: perl6-language@perl.org
  Number: 280
  Version: 1
  Status: Developing

ABSTRACT

C<> is not as intuitive as it could be.

DESCRIPTION

In Perl 5.6.0, we altered the behaviour of the C<> construct in POD, so that you could say C<< ... >> 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 C<> the same semantics as a single quoted string with q//. That is:

Do away with the need to escape stuff inside C<>, because that stops you cutting and pasting the code.
Allow the use of alternate delimiters to avoid the arrow problem.

    C<$xyz>
    C/$foo->bar/

IMPLEMENTATION

Just some tweaks to POD::Parser, haha.

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