On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> Second, POD is not XML, and it definitely isn't DOCBOOK. Why do I
> need magic reserved words like TOC and APPENDIX? I'm not writing a
> book, I'm writing code. And if I was writing a book, I wouldn't be
> dumb enough to write it in
Carl observed:
> Partly that is because documentation isn't at the forefront of things
> that need to be implemented for Perl 6 to be useful, so it's kind of
> lagging behind the rest.
>
> Partly it's because Damian is the "owner" of that synopsis, and he
> practices a kind of "drive-by-updating"
John Gabriele wrote:
> Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
> it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
> (and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).
>
> [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> [Pandoc]:
Author: lwall
Date: 2010-02-10 18:10:26 +0100 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 29675
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod
Log:
[Spec] squash [;] fossils noticed by eternaleye++
Modified: docs/Perl6/Sp
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
> Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
> {snip}
Gah. Sorry for the quasi-double-post. I posted on google groups, it
didn't show up, then I jumped the gun and posted a similar message to
the ML.
---John
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> * John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]:
>> [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
>> [Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
>> [reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
>
> Or, more Perl like:
> [OOD
* John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]:
> [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> [Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
> [reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
Or, more Perl like:
[OODoc] http://perl.overmeer.net/oodoc/
http://perl.overmeer.net/oo
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
(and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
Austin (>):
> I've been doing a bunch of NQP and PIR coding, where Pmichaud++ has been
> trying to support some kind of POD syntax. With the release of the S26
> draft, he has tightened the parsing to follow more of the rules laid out in
> the spec, and after a few months, I've noticed that the tre
