From @autarch

There's a class in rakudo's Pod.pm named Pod​::Raw, but rakudo does not produce these blocks. I'm not sure whether the bug is that the class exists or that it's never used.

I note that for something like "=begin html ... =end html" you get a Pod​::Block​::Named. That seems ok to me, and maybe we just don't need Pod​::Raw to exist. The only issue is that there needs to be a way to tell the parser that the contents of a block should not be parsed for more Pod, or only selected Pod, like we have for code blocks.

From @softmoth

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 14​:27​:04 -0800, autarch wrote​:

There's a class in rakudo's Pod.pm named Pod​::Raw, but rakudo does not
produce these blocks. I'm not sure whether the bug is that the class
exists or that it's never used.

I *think* it's meant to be Pod​::Block​::Comment. In rakudo/src/Perl6/Pod.nqp the raw_block() routine spits out comments, and is called only for comments from Actions. IMO Pod​::Raw could be removed (and raw_block() renamed comment_block(), I guess).

I note that for something like "=begin html ... =end html" you get a
Pod​::Block​::Named. That seems ok to me, and maybe we just don't need
Pod​::Raw to exist. The only issue is that there needs to be a way to
tell the parser that the contents of a block should not be parsed for
more Pod, or only selected Pod, like we have for code blocks.

In S26, named blocks are introduced by Titlecase identifiers, so

=Html :style-uri('http://example.com/css/pod.css')
<b>This is meant to be unparsed, and used by any processor that wants
to use it</b>

=html
This seems like it should be an error, as I read it​:

S26​:
Note that all block names consisting entirely of lowercase or
entirely of uppercase letters are reserved. See L<#Semantic blocks>.

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