Perl6::Pod::FormattingCode::A - Replaced by contents of specified macro/object
=alias PROGNAME Earl Irradiatem Eventually =alias VENDOR 4D Kingdoms =alias TERMS_URL L<http://www.4dk.com/eie> The use of A<PROGNAME> is subject to the terms and conditions laid out by A<VENDOR>, as specified at A<TERMS_URL>.
A variation on placement codes is the A<> code, which is replaced by the contents of the named alias or object specified within its delimiters. For example:
A<>
Any compile-time Perl 6 object that starts with a sigil is automatically available within an alias placement as well. Unless the object is already a string type, it is converted to a string during document-generation by implicitly calling .perl on it.
.perl
So, for example, a document can refer to its own filename (as A<$?FILE>), or to the subroutine inside which the specific Pod is nested (as A<$?ROUTINE>), or to the current class (as A<$?CLASS>). Similarly, the value of any program constants defined with sigils can be easily reproduced in documentation:
A<$?FILE>
A<$?ROUTINE>
A<$?CLASS>
# Actual code... constant $GROWTH_RATE of Num where 0..* = 1.6; =pod =head4 Standard Growth Rate The standard growth rate is assumed to be A<$GROWTH_RATE>.
Non-mutating method calls on these objects are also allowed, so a document can reproduce the surrounding subroutine's signature (A<$?ROUTINE.signature>) or the type of a constant (A<$GROWTH_RATE.WHAT>).
A<$?ROUTINE.signature>
A<$GROWTH_RATE.WHAT>
http://zag.ru/perl6-pod/S26.html, Perldoc Pod to HTML converter: http://zag.ru/perl6-pod/, Perl6::Pod::Lib
Zahatski Aliaksandr, <zag@cpan.org>
Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Zahatski Aliaksandr
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install Perl6::Pod, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Perl6::Pod
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Perl6::Pod
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.