Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

["Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:45:52AM -0300, Filipe Brandenburger 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.
> 
> Is it just a null op? Why is it there?


perlrun explains it all.



Abigail

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