* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-01 00:05]: > Surely you can at least check that all POD is "well-formed" > without running any code from the distribution in question?
Not entirely, although in retrospect that doesn’t matter. The issue is that if you have multi-line strings or heredocs or other such multi-line special constructs, perl may parse the file differently from a naïve POD parser. However, that doesn’t really matter, as all POD parsers used in practice are naïve, so you *don’t* want to parse the file exactly as perl would if you’re going to validate the POD. So please disregard that part; it is infeasible only to check POD for good form (much less style), whereas it is entirely feasible to check that the POD will be parsed correctly by practical POD processors. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
