Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

[email protected] (Allison Randal) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:01:49 -0500

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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> 
> My interpretation of that was that any angle brackets inside should be considered literal, and thus escaped. The whole point of `<<   >>` AFAICS was to allow one to use literal brackets without escaping them, as one must do in `<>`.

That's my interpretation too. If you have to escape every angle bracket 
inside doubled-up C<<>> tags, there's really no point in even having the 
doubled-up tags.

I think the latest bug report is wrong.

Allison