Applying this separation of data from metadata to the internals of
Perl seems like a promising way to support arbitrary markup without
compromising Perl's text-slinging heritage.
<standing ovations from Helsinki> In-band data always spells
out as unnecessary contortion. First of all, it always means
extra parsing, escape characters, escaped escaped characters, ...
Secondly, extra code means extra space for bugs to germinate.
Thirdly, extra code cannot do any good to execution speed.
--
$jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/~jhi/
# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
