Last night, not for the first time, I found myself irritated that POD
has no semantic concept of the code it describes. POD's a great markup
language but it'd be nice if it were possible to associate chunks of
POD with bits of code. Instead of
=head2 C<foo>
foo is a method...
=head2 C<bar>
bar is a subroutine...
why not
=method foo
=sub bar
?
For formatting purposes =method and =sub could just be macros that
expanded to =head2 C<$1> but it'd be far easier to extract, e.g., the
documentation for just a single method if there was a formal
relationship between POD directives and the things they described.
Of course I realise such a thing would break every POD tool in
existence...
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
