On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Kingpin wrote:
>
> > If it has to look for __DATA__ then does it have to look for
> > some especially thorny cases where something might look like
> > '__DATA__' but doesn't really start the __DATA__ section of a
>
> If there is such a case, it is not thorny, it is the programmer trying
> to do something very sneaky and making his program look like it's
> doing something that it's not. (That programmer does not deserve to
> have his pod parsed correctly ;-)
I wouldn't find something like the following,
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my @data = <DATA>;
print <<EOF;
print '@data';
__DATA__
Bar
EOF
__DATA__
Foo
... to be all that unreasonable to do.
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