While wandering through the html documentation from ActiveState I ran across
several instances of:
=item salutation
>From the context, this was clearly not what the author had intended! Being
an editor, at this point I decided to run a grep on \Perl for all instances
of '=item' in .html files and noticed that what I'd found were only a small
part of the problem. Obviously there will be some 'meta' instances of
'=item' where such a thing would be correct-- but even a quick look will
reveal quite a mess! Since this is for the most part generated from pod
text, the obvious culprit would be pod2html or whatever (where whatever is
html.pm). Given the number of out of context pod statements I found (not
just =item), I'd say that the poor thing was broken, or at least needs some
sort of fix up.
I'm aware that such things may have been fixed in later versions of the core
(i.e. at least 5.7 if not 5.8) and I thought I'd ask before taking this any
further.
hsm
