On Feb 21, Hewlett Pickens said:

>  Items like C<exec LIST>  and C<wait()> have meant nothing when I've come
>across them.  Now - it dawns on me that they are "c" calls.  

No, you're looking at raw Pod markup.  It's like seeing <b>whoa</b>
instead of rendered HTML.

C<...> means that the text should be shown in monospace font, like Courier
New.  Read 'perldoc perlpod' for a description of the markup.

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