Can we please discontinue the cross posting. The traffic on bootstrap
is bad enough without getting TWO copies, one misdirected to bootstrap
when it belongs on perl-qa.
Thanks-
--a-mused
Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>
> If you do this for new code or changed documentation adding
> a =for result would add more test cases.
>
> <chaim>
>
> >>>>> "MGS" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MGS> Synopsis
> MGS> --------
>
> MGS> Its common enough to put code examples into the Perl documentation, and its
> MGS> also common enough for this example code to not work. Usually its just a
> MGS> silly typo or other such simple thing. It would be great if there was a way
> MGS> to automate some simple compilation tests of examples.
>
> MGS> Using the =for POD tag we can do this.
>
> MGS> =pod
>
> MGS> Here is a nice example of how to add one and one in Perl.
>
> MGS> =for example
>
> MGS> print 2 + 2;
>
> MGS> The existing POD utilities would have to be modified to consider "=for
> MGS> example" as Perl code which is to be displayed with an implied C<> around it.
>
> --
> Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc.
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