Re: not-so-plain documentation

2004-06-25 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# The following was supposedly scribed by # Randy W. Sims # on Thursday 24 June 2004 10:40 pm: >You'll want >to subclass Pod::Text, override the proper method to add a new escape >sequence (say $), then maybe override the constructor to >take a hash with the values for the variables or possibly so

Re: not-so-plain documentation

2004-06-25 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# The following was supposedly scribed by # Johan Vromans # on Friday 25 June 2004 03:00 am: >This will have a nasty side effect, as shown below: > >  $ round --round=42 --help >  usage:  round >  options:  --round   (default  42) Yes, this is correct. But I was planning something more along t

Re: not-so-plain documentation

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Vilain
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-25 05:11]: I've seen pod2usage() and this would work, but most of these scripts have some defaults set for variables that can be changed with the GetOptions flags and I'd like to show these defaults at least in the help message.

Re: not-so-plain documentation

2004-06-25 Thread Johan Vromans
> my $rounding = 0.01; > > GetOptions( > 'round=f' => \$rounding, > 'help' => sub {usage()}, > ); > > sub usage { > print "usage: $0 \n"; > print "options: --round(default $rounding)\n"; > } > END This will have a nasty side effect, as shown below: $

Re: not-so-plain documentation

2004-06-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-25 05:11]: > I've seen pod2usage() and this would work, but most of these > scripts have some defaults set for variables that can be > changed with the GetOptions flags and I'd like to show these > defaults at least in the help message. You are looking f