Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

[Filipe Brandenburger <filipe-brandenburger@procergs.rs.gov.br>]

At 09:26 PM 22/04/2001 +0200, Abigail wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:45:29PM -0500, Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:
> > Abigail <abigail@foad.org> wrote:
> > >   :(); { :: | :: } ;
> > >   :(), { :: | :: } ;
> > What is the first colon there?  Surely not a null label?
>Would you believe that first colon is actually documented?

Is it really documented?

I see it compiles if it's the first non-blank character of the first line, 
but I didn't find it anywhere in the documentation, and I also noticed no 
side effects of using it.

Is it just a null op? Why is it there?

- Branden


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