On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:17:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have always favoured I<$variable> because I<> used to be recommended
> > for variables in perlpod.pod ("used for emphasis or variables"), but I
> > see that change 12542 reworded the description for I<> as "used for
> > emphasis and parameters" and now gives the example "redo I<LABEL>".
>
> Yeah, the intention was, I believe, metasyntactic variables. (Which I
> still think should be a completely separate POD command.)
Such as R<> from
http://search.cpan.org/~arandal/Pod-PseudoPod-0.11/lib/Pod/PseudoPod/Tutorial.pod#Inline_Character_Tagging
? "Still" makes me think this was argued at some point and you lost.
