Re: Scrunched up string literals in Pod::Simple tests

2012-02-21 Thread Florent Angly
Hi Sean, You are right that Pod::Simple has problems with multiline POD strings contained into a variable or heredoc section: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=36404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69390 In that second link, David Wheeler wrote that the

Re: .pod files

2012-02-10 Thread Florent Angly
I doubt you'll ever see a distribution which has POD in both Foo/Bar.pm and Foo/Bar.pod, because the perldoc tool will only see one or the other when a user types 'perldoc Foo::Bar'. Thank you David, this is very useful. My conclusion is that it is not explicitly forbidden, but it is not

.pod files

2012-02-09 Thread Florent Angly
Dear all, I had a look at the perlsyn, perldoc and perldocspec documents but cannot seem to find the answer to the following questions. The POD content of a module can be written into its Perl file or into a separate .pod file. There are quite a few examples of modules around that use one