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Re: Standard Header Purpose field

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From: Dan MacNeil <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:10:02 -0500
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On 12/20/2011 01:13 AM, Ferhat Elmas wrote:
>    Hi Dan,
> 
>    in 001_setup.t, I have seen two purpose field.
> 
>   One is in uppercase, PURPOSE: Meaningful purpose is required!
>   Other is in lowercase, Purpose: ....
>                                                            ....
> 
>   Then, I did a grep and see that some other files also includes this
> kind of purpose field.
> 
>   In short, it seems intentional, why are you doing this?


Reply to the list as this maybe of general interest.

Where it exits, the 'Purpose:' field was put in by hand either before
the PURPOSE: standard was created or in ignorance of it.

It isn't really intentional. It is ok that xt/header_doc_meaning.t

doesn't accept lower case purpose:

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