Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:54:47 -0400, Tad McClellan wrote:

>> Improperly nested tags, or one character it
>> doesn't recognize... and the parser says "nyet".
>
>I read that as "the machine will tell me when I messed up".
>
>I'd rather have a machine tell me than have to figure it
>out myself. I think I claim some of the Good Laziness there  :-)

That's not my experience with XML::Parser. It gives some weird error
message, mentions a line number and a column number that doesn't even
exist... and that's it. It's not very helpful. You usually don't even
get any output so you can see where and how you messed up.

It's the same Good Laziness that tells me it's no good.

-- 
        Bart.