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authormarkm <markm@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-02 14:33:17 +0000
committermarkm <markm@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-02 14:33:17 +0000
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Maintenance releace 3 of perl5.005. Includes support for threads.
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@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ mandatory default like it is in B<sed> and B<awk>.)
=head2 Declarations
-Perl is, for the most part, a free-form language. (The only
-exception to this is format declarations, for obvious reasons.) Comments
-are indicated by the C<"#"> character, and extend to the end of the line. If
-you attempt to use C</* */> C-style comments, it will be interpreted
-either as division or pattern matching, depending on the context, and C++
-C<//> comments just look like a null regular expression, so don't do
-that.
+Perl is, for the most part, a free-form language. (The only exception
+to this is format declarations, for obvious reasons.) Text from a
+C<"#"> character until the end of the line is a comment, and is
+ignored. If you attempt to use C</* */> C-style comments, it will be
+interpreted either as division or pattern matching, depending on the
+context, and C++ C<//> comments just look like a null regular
+expression, so don't do that.
A declaration can be put anywhere a statement can, but has no effect on
the execution of the primary sequence of statements--declarations all
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