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

[Nicholas Clark]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:30:39PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Nathan Wiger writes:
> > > True, C<> and E<> are pretty warty, but they clearly identify
> > > something more presentational in nature.
> > 
> > Yes, this is true. I think it's pretty apparent that the <> syntax is
> > broken - there's too much stuff (like -> and <>) that uses duplicate
> > characters. This could be solved if escapes worked:
> > 
> >    C<foo-\>bar>
> 
> This is solved in 5.6 and later's POD:
> 
>   C<< foo->bar >>
> 
> If you squint, you can see those French chevrons poking out.

No-one ever did suggest adding « and » to the list of matched delimiters
that q() etc support, did they? :-)
Does Unicode define bracket pairings for character sets? <ducks>

Nicholas Clark