passing text by reference and other questions...

--- /Library/Perl/Parse/RecDescent.pm	Fri Jan 19 19:02:51 2001
+++ RecDescent.pm	Sun Feb 10 14:04:55 2002
@@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@
 my $COMMITMK		= '\G\s*<commit>';
 my $UNCOMMITMK		= '\G\s*<uncommit>';
 my $QUOTELIKEMK		= '\G\s*<perl_quotelike>';
-my $CODEBLOCKMK		= '\G\s*<perl_codeblock>';
+my $CODEBLOCKMK		= '\G\s*<perl_codeblock(:.*?)?(?<!\\\\)>';
 my $VARIABLEMK		= '\G\s*<perl_variable>';
 my $NOCHECKMK		= '\G\s*<nocheck>';
 my $AUTOTREEMK		= '\G\s*<autotree>';
@@ -1943,11 +1943,22 @@
 			elsif ($grammar =~ m/$CODEBLOCKMK/gco)
 			{
 				_parse("an perl codeblock marker", $aftererror,$line);
+                                my $delimiter = "undef";
+                                my $directive;
+                                if ($1) {
+                                    $directive = "<perl_codeblock$1>";
+                                    $delimiter = $1;
+                                    $delimiter =~ s/\A://;
+                                    $delimiter =~ s/((?<!\\).)/\\$1/g;
+                                    $delimiter = "\"" . $delimiter . "\"";
+                                } else {
+                                    $directive = "<perl_codeblock>";
+                                }
 				$item = new Parse::RecDescent::Directive(
-					'Text::Balanced::extract_codeblock($text,undef,$skip);
-					', $lookahead,$line,"<perl_codeblock>");
+					"Text::Balanced::extract_codeblock(\$text,$delimiter,\$skip);
+					", $lookahead,$line,$directive);
 				$prod and $prod->additem($item)
-				      or  _no_rule("<perl_codeblock>",$line);
+				      or  _no_rule($directive,$line);
 			}
 			elsif ($grammar =~ m/$VARIABLEMK/gco)
 			{

--- /Library/Perl/Filter/Simple.pm	Fri Nov 23 20:48:49 2001
+++ Simple.pm	Sun Feb 10 15:07:55 2002
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@
 				  map { ref $_ ? $;.pack('N',$count++).$; : $_ }
 				      @pieces;
 			@pieces = grep { ref $_ } @pieces;
+                        local *show = sub {
+                            my $text = shift;
+                            $text =~ s/$extractor/${$pieces[unpack('N',$1)]}/g;
+                            return $text;
+                        };
 		        $transform->(@_);
 			s/$extractor/${$pieces[unpack('N',$1)]}/g;
 		     }