Re^5: POD Meditation?

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Where do you get your definition for POD from?

From man perlsyn:

PODs: Embedded Documentation
    Perl has a mechanism for intermixing documentation with source code.
    While it's expecting the beginning of a new statement, if the compiler
    encounters a line that begins with an equal sign and a word, like this

        =head1 Here There Be Pods!

    Then that text and all remaining text up through and including a line
    beginning with "=cut" will be ignored.  The format of the intervening
    text is described in perlpod.

Perl and POD are two different languages which can be intermingled somehow.

But in the snippet the OP gives, there's nothing intermingled. There's just Perl code.

And the Perl-parser doesn't know much about POD-syntax

I'm not claiming it does, or should be doing. But Perl does have to know where a POD section starts, and where it ends. And it knows where a POD section starts a lot better than any POD parser.

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Re^6: POD Meditation? by LanX (Saint) on Apr 28, 2012 at 21:10 UTC
`/* =head1 Not_Perl() Only POD can parse POD! =cut */ function Not_Perl (){ window.alert("JavaScript!"); }` [download] Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: POD Meditation? by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 28, 2012 at 21:17 UTC
So, you have Javascript comment. Is there a point you are trying to make?	[reply]
Re^8: POD Meditation? by LanX (Saint) on Apr 28, 2012 at 21:42 UTC
Yes, but my "point" is cautiously hidden in the code. Try running pod2text or pod2html on it to reveal the secret message! ;-) Cheers Rolf	[reply]
Re^9: POD Meditation? by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 28, 2012 at 22:12 UTC
Re^10: POD Meditation? by LanX (Saint) on Apr 29, 2012 at 11:07 UTC
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