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Rakudo does not recognize POD variables of the form $=podSection. As
an example, the following program fails with the message "Symbol
'$=miscData' not predeclared":
#!/usr/bin/env perl6
use v6;
=begin miscData
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
You are in a little maze of twisting passages, all different.
You are in a maze of twisting little passages, all different.
You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different.
You are in a twisting maze of little passages, all different.
You are in a twisting little maze of passages, all different.
You are in a twisty little maze of passages, all different.
You are in a twisty maze of little passages, all different.
You are in a little twisty maze of passages, all different.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different.
You are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different.
=end miscData
.say for $=miscData.lines;
If $=miscData is predeclared with "our $=miscData;" (which I don't
think should be necessary), Rakudo will still not initialize it with
any POD-related data. The problem also occurs if "miscData" is
changed to "DATA", and attempting to access the POD section via
"%=POD<miscData>" does not work either, as %=POD is also not declared.
This problem was observed on Rakudo Perl #18 ("Pittsburgh") with
revision 39599 of Parrot on Mac OS X 10.5.6.
