On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:03:51PM -0700, Tim Gim Yee wrote:
> Here's a pod example:
>
> =head1 Printing 5 Newlines
>
> print <<'FIVE';
>
>
>
>
>
> FIVE
>
> If a formatter doesn't reproduce the print statement verbatim, it is
> broken behavior.
>
> > It was my impression that this required particularly unpleasant lookahead,
> > in event-based parsers. I.e., when you see a blank line terminating a
> > paragraph, you can't just act on it --because what if it's that kind of
> > significant-blank-line that can be between verbatims?
>
> I think Pod::Parser (an even-based parser) already does the right thing.
> It doesn't strip paragraph separators from the end of paragraphs. In
> fact, I think it passes *every* character on to the formatter/procesor, a
> necessary requirement for a generic pod parser.
Pod::Parser can indeed pass every character on to the
formatter/processor, but I think that it currently treats
separate consecutive verbatim paragraphs as separate verbatim
blocks rather than a single verbatim block. It would have to
do some kind of "one paragraph lookahead" to accumulate such
verbatim blocks into a single verbatim block. But it probably
inst that hard since it already has to do something similar
with accumulating lines into a paragraph.
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"And miles to go before I sleep." -- Robert Frost
