Verbatim examples

Examples are searched for markup. This is very handy to highlight interesting parts, but has its disadvantages: all backslashes that are not part of a tag or macro have to be escaped by an additional backslash. For large chunks of code, this can be a nerveracking task, especially if one doesn't need highlightning.

So, verbatim example paragraphs allow to insert code (and anything) "as it is" - it will neither be interpreted nor modified by PerlPoint.

A verbatim paragraph starts with a <<STRING sequence, where STRING is any identifier, and ends with the first line beginning with and consisting of only that very string. Shell and Perl users will know this concept as "here documents". Here is an example:

    <<EOE
  
      # Code here is not interpreted.
      $ref=\$var.
  
    EOE