1MDOM::Token::Comment(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioMnDOM::Token::Comment(3)
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NAME

6       MDOM::Token::Comment - A comment in Makefile source code
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INHERITANCE

9         MDOM::Token::Comment
10         isa MDOM::Token
11             isa MDOM::Element
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SYNOPSIS

14         # This is a MDOM::Token::Comment
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16         foo: bar # So is this one
17               echo 'hello'
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DESCRIPTION

20       In MDOM, comments are represented by "MDOM::Token::Comment" objects.
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22       These come in two flavours, line comment and inline comments.
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24       A "line comment" is a comment that stands on its own line. These
25       comments hold their own newline and whitespace (both leading and
26       trailing) as part of the one "MDOM::Token::Comment" object.
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28       An inline comment is a comment that appears after some code, and
29       continues to the end of the line. This does not include whitespace, and
30       the terminating newlines is considered a separate
31       MDOM::Token::Whitespace token.
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33       This is largely a convenience, simplifying a lot of normal code
34       relating to the common things people do with comments.
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36       Most commonly, it means when you "prune" or "delete" a comment, a line
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38       comment is removed from the inside of the line, allowing the newline to
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41       It also means you can move comments around in blocks much more easily.
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43       For now, this is a suitably handy way to do things. However, I do
44       reserve the right to change my mind on this one if it gets dangerously
45       anachronistic somewhere down the line.
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METHODS

48       Only very limited methods are available, beyond those provided by our
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52       The "line" accessor returns true if the "MDOM::Token::Comment" is a
53       line comment, or false if it is an inline comment.
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SUPPORT

56       See the support section in the main module.
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AUTHOR

59       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
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62       Copyright 2001 - 2006 Adam Kennedy.
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64       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
65       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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67       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
68       with this module.
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