At 14:22 2002-10-17 +1000, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote:
>* Sean 'TorgoX' Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Oct 2002 14:18]:
>[...]
> > However, I do at times wonder why anyone in their right mind would
> > write /another/ perlpodspec-compliant Pod-parser. [...] I can't think
> > of a motivation that'd
* Sean 'TorgoX' Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Oct 2002 14:18]:
[...]
> However, I do at times wonder why anyone in their right mind would
> write /another/ perlpodspec-compliant Pod-parser. [...] I can't think
> of a motivation that'd be worth the bother of doing it all over again.
Curiosity.
O
At 20:54 2002-10-16 +, 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
Sean M. Burke wrote:
> At 10:14 2002-10-08 +1000, Iain Truskett wrote:
>
> > > I'll add it to the whole slew of =item variances that Pod::Simple
> > > kindly and silently forgives.
> >
> > Are these documented somewhere?
>
> Nope. Probably won't be, as I can't imagine anyone needing to know
> a
>[and a discussion of "=for foo bar" ensued]
>
>Anything to do with Pod, perldoc, or the pod formatters belongs on the
>pod-people list, not p5p.
>
Oops :-]
>But anyway, you happen to have caught me at a great time for
>this. I'm
:-)
>about to cook up the perldoc <-> Pod::Simple interface,
>The only thing missing is something to read that private POD.
>That would be
>the perldoc extension I'd suggest. perldoc --private or
>something would
>display all POD between "=begin/end private" tags, probably
>with a bit of
>special highlighting, in addition to normal POD.
>
Fine - or pe