> POD should tolerate white space where it now requires empty lines
[...]
> =head1 IMPLEMENTATION
>
> Seems like it should be just a regexp stuck in somewhere
I think this is a specific problem calling for a more general solution.
I can think of two possible ones:
1. A standard library function to safely but forgivingly read in a
"paragraph". I have cc'd perl6-stdlib since this strikes me as a sensible
candidate for the standard library.
2. Allowing $/ (or its successor, perhaps set on a per-filehandle
basis) to be a regular expression, not a string. (Surely there's an RFC
on that somewhere.)
Once either of those solutions is implemented, then then it's a simple
matter for pod tools using it instead of $/ (or whatever).
Since you made this proposal, would you be willing to pursue either
of these options further?
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
