Re: (cperl-mode) Problems with syntax highlighting after __DATA__ !

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

On 2010-10-22, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> L> or a POD-section , i.e. natural solution would be comment-face.
> L> (like most other editors I tested do, just check vim)
>
> L> __END__ is practically the same as __DATA__ and Ilya is right those
> L> sections are terminated only by EOF.
>
> Theoretically they are practically the same, but in practice they are not.

[Ignoring that, formally, this is content-free,] I believe you are mistaken.

> __END__ ends the Perl program and any __DATA__ effects.

No.

> Right.  Perl won't parse after __DATA__ or __END__ no matter what.

Nevertheless, most of the time, it will.

> IZ>   (The code to parse <DATA> may have some special logic to find your
> IZ>    __X__; but it may look for whatever it wants as well...)
>
> There are at least a few CPAN modules that care, e.g. Inline::Files and
> company.  So I think it's nice to highlight every __X__ marker instead
> of special-casing __DATA__ (__END__ has to be special because it means
> POD will start, usually).

I'm very wary about handling "quirks of Perl modules" - having handled
quirks of Perl itself.  ;-)

Yours,
Ilya