At 20:54 2002-10-16 +0000, Smylers wrote: >[...]for other people who try to parse it using pod readers that just >implement the spec and not your slew of variances. > >(Similar to how people view their webpages in 'Internet Explorer', it >forgives some errors, and so they are unaware of them as they publish >non-standard code which doesn't work in other browsers.)
This is basically a good analogy, and I generally do like to keep mentally distinct the spec I wrote, and the parser I wrote. That makes things quite tidy. However, I do at times wonder why anyone in their right mind would write /another/ perlpodspec-compliant Pod-parser. Doing the first one, Pod::Simple, was plenty hard enough. I can't think of a motivation that'd be worth the bother of doing it all over again. -- Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/
