Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 12:17:22 2006 New Revision: 10677 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: Also exempted initial # rule from unspaciness so that you can block comment even unspacey code. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Mon Aug 7 12:17:22 2006 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Date: 10 Aug 2004 Last Modified: 7 Aug 2006 Number: 2 - Version: 58 + Version: 59 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ 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 -if the unspace contains one or more newlines. All other line-oriented +if the unspace contains one or more newlines. Also, a C<#> in the first column +is always an end-of-line comment, as described above. All other line-oriented processing is suppressed, however--including pod directives and heredoc boundaries.