Author: larry Date: Sat May 6 10:04:16 2006 New Revision: 9126 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: Simplified # to always be comment even where a quote delim is expected. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Sat May 6 10:04:16 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 2 May 2006 + Last Modified: 6 May 2006 Number: 2 - Version: 37 + Version: 38 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -79,9 +79,8 @@ Single-line comments work as in Perl 5, starting with a C<#> character and ending at the subsequent newline. They count as whitespace -equivalent to newline for purposes of separation. Certain quoting -tokens may make use of C<#> characters as delimiters without starting -a comment. +equivalent to newline for purposes of separation. Unlike in Perl 5, +C<#> may not be used as the delimiter in quoting constructs. =item * @@ -1354,6 +1353,8 @@ an argument to an adverb in something like C<< q:z<foo>// >>. A colon may never be used as the delimiter since it will always be taken to mean another adverb regardless of what's in front of it. +Nor may a C<#> character be used as the delimiter since it is always +taken as whitespace (specifically, as a comment). =item *
