Damian Conway wrote: >> When using the code block alias, are the outermost curly braces >> considered to be part of the ambient code? > > Yes. All ambient code is actual code.
OK. Let me propose an alternative (which I expect will be immediately shot down): Allow '=begin alias', '=end alias', and '=for alias' as special cases: the Perl parser makes an exception for them and doesn't treat them as the start or end of POD Blocks, merely as single-line directives; but the Pod parser treats them as normal Pod Blocks, with the contents being attached to the alias. Net result: said contents count both as ambient code and as aliased text. Benefits: you can alias any ambient code that you want, as long as it consists of one or more full lines; and your method for delimiting the alias is one that Pod writers will be quite use to. Drawback: the Perl parser will need to look forward a bit further before deciding how much "ambient commentary" there is. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
