>So this would break any code which interacts with pod: Pod::Usage, perlman,
>perlhelp, etc.
NB: perlhelp == perlman with a particular metapage named perlhelp,
which knows to search the pod library linewise.
>Which I suppose just adds weight to the don't go there,
>highly discouraged ultimatum. I'd previously been thinking of stripping pod,
>comments, and documentation in the context of stripping symbols from an
>object file.
EEK.
>What else besides forced verbose warnings (aka diagnostics) would be
>impacted?
Um, usage messages, sometimes.
>How badly non-functional would the resulting Perl distribution be? Less
>than 100% functional does not mean it wouldn't be functional. An "embed
>perl" distribution might be willing to live with less than everthing.
I'll bet it's not worth it. Don't you have decent block/frag setups?
--tom
