chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:35:06 David Golden wrote:
> 
>> On 7/31/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>> 1) POD can possibly behave any differently on my machine versus anyone
>>> else's machine, being non-executed text and not executed code
> 
>> What version of Pod::Simple do you have?  What version does everyone
>> else have?  Will POD parsed on your machine always parse the same
>> everywhere?
> 
> POD being a mostly-human readable markup language, the possible problem is 
> that the POD renders incorrectly.  In this case, the documentation is still 
> available, whether by reading around code incorrectly appearing in the 
> documentation or reading the documentation directly, not through a POD 
> translator/transliterator.
> 
> This is not a functional failure; it has nothing to do with whether the 
> *code* 
> will behave correctly on a user's system.

Unless that render failure also means that --help/pod2usage in a script
doesn't work. Then it's a functional failure.

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