[% setvar title POD needs a reorder command. %]
<div id="archive-notice">
    <h3>This file is part of the Perl 6 Archive</h3>
    <table bgcolor="red"><tr><td><font color="white"> Note: these documents may be out of date. Do <b>not</b> use as reference!</font></tr></td></table>
    <p>To see what is currently happening visit <a href="http://www.perl6.org/">http://www.perl6.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class='pod'>
<a name='TITLE'></a><h1>TITLE</h1>
<p>POD needs a reorder command.</p>
<a name='VERSION'></a><h1>VERSION</h1>
<pre>  Maintainer: Kenneth C. Rich &lt;<a href='mailto:kenrich@mail.rochester.edu'>kenrich@mail.rochester.edu</a>&gt;
  Date: 12 Sep 2000
  Last Modified: 13 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: <a href='mailto:perl6-language@perl.org'>perl6-language@perl.org</a>
  Number: 217
  Version: 2
  Status: Developing</pre>
<a name='ABSTRACT'></a><h1>ABSTRACT</h1>
<p>It would be nice to have the order of output be able to
differ from the order in the source.</p>
<a name='DESCRIPTION'></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<a name='Syntax suggestions:'></a><h2>Syntax suggestions:</h2>
<p><code>=clip</code> <i>optional-label</i></p>
<p>...text...</p>
<p><code>=cut</code></p>
<p>...code...</p>
<p><code>=print</code> <i>required-label-from-clip</i></p>
<p><code>=cut</code></p>
<p>The &quot;=clip&quot; could be &quot;=for&quot;, or &quot;=begin&quot; and &quot;=end&quot; with a
non-text-processor label.</p>
<a name='Motivations:'></a><h2>Motivations:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a name='Reorder the document'></a>Reorder the document</li>
<p>Sometimes I want a chunk of documentation to hang out near a
chunk of code, but the order of the code is not always a good order for
a man page.</p>
</ul>
<p>I dislike overloading the &quot;=for&quot; label with &quot;=print&quot; label functionality.</p>
<p>I'd probably require that &quot;=print&quot; may only occur after the
matching &quot;=clip.&quot;  But I can imagine writing POD processors that deal
with &quot;=print&quot; references preceding &quot;=clip&quot; assertions, so I retract that
sentence.  The &quot;=print&quot; would evaluate into a plain paragraph, so mostly
you'd want to use &quot;=print&quot; after another &quot;=command&quot; like &quot;=head1&quot;, and so
on.  For flexibility, an &quot;=print&quot; starting a pod section should
effectively evaluate into an &quot;=pod&quot; paragraph.</p>
<a name='IMPLEMENTATION'></a><h1>IMPLEMENTATION</h1>
<p>...</p>
<a name='REFERENCES'></a><h1>REFERENCES</h1>
<p>RFC 5: Multiline Comments for Perl</p>
</div>