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<a name='TITLE'></a><h1>TITLE</h1>
<p>Tweak POD's C&lt;&gt;</p>
<a name='VERSION'></a><h1>VERSION</h1>
<pre>  Maintainer: Simon Cozens &lt;<a href='mailto:simon@brecon.co.uk'>simon@brecon.co.uk</a>&gt;
  Date: 24 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: <a href='mailto:perl6-language@perl.org'>perl6-language@perl.org</a>
  Number: 280
  Version: 1
  Status: Developing</pre>
<a name='ABSTRACT'></a><h1>ABSTRACT</h1>
<p>C&lt;&gt; is not as intuitive as it could be.</p>
<a name='DESCRIPTION'></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>In Perl 5.6.0, we altered the behaviour of the C&lt;&gt; construct in
POD, so that you could say <code>C&lt;&lt; ... &gt;&gt;</code> to avoid the
problem that</p>
<pre>    C&lt;&lt; $foo-&gt;bar &gt;&gt;</pre>
<p>would be ended by the arrow.</p>
<p>However, this isn't too Perlish, and there's an easier solution; give
the C&lt;&gt; the same semantics as a single quoted string with
<code>q//</code>. That is:</p>
<ul>
<li><a name='Do away with the need to escape stuff inside C&lt;&gt;, because that stops you cutting and pasting the code.'></a>Do away with the need to escape stuff inside C&lt;&gt;, because that
stops you cutting and pasting the code.</li>
<li><a name='Allow the use of alternate delimiters to avoid the arrow problem.'></a>Allow the use of alternate delimiters to avoid the arrow problem.</li>
<pre>    C&lt;$xyz&gt;
    C/$foo-&gt;bar/</pre>
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<a name='IMPLEMENTATION'></a><h1>IMPLEMENTATION</h1>
<p>Just some tweaks to <code>POD::Parser</code>, haha.</p>
<a name='REFERENCES'></a><h1>REFERENCES</h1>
<p>None.</p>
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