Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

["Keith Calvert Ivey" <kcivey@cpcug.org>]

Filipe Brandenburger <filipe-brandenburger@procergs.rs.gov.br> 
wrote:
> 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.

There's this sentence in perlrun:

|   To start up sh rather than csh, some systems may have to
|   replace the #! line with a line containing just a colon,
|   which will be politely ignored by Perl.

That's more of a mention than a documentation, though, and this 
colon isn't the only character on the line anyway.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Washington, DC

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