Allison Randal <alli...@perl.org> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is not the sort of thing that one gets to change retroactively, >> I'm afraid, no matter how nice it would be for consistency.
> Agreed on keeping Perl 5 pod changes minimal, but I thought it always > worked that way. Does anyone have an old pod parser around to test? tribes:~> cat test.pod =head1 TEST NESTED C C<< this should be I<italic> >> C<< this should not need escaping: $x > L<Foo>->blort >> tribes:~> perl /usr/local/bin/pod2man test.pod | grep should \&\f(CW\*(C`this should be \f(CIitalic\f(CW\*(C'\fR \&\f(CW\*(C`this should not need escaping: $x > Foo\->blort\*(C'\fR tribes:~> perl -v | head -2 This is perl, v5.8.6 built for sun4-solaris tribes:~> perl -MPod::Man -e 'print $INC{"Pod/Man.pm"}, "\n"' /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/Pod/Man.pm tribes:~> grep ^'use Pod' /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/Pod/Man.pm use Pod::ParseLink qw(parselink); use Pod::Parser (); So this is how it worked in Perl 5.8 with Pod::Parser. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>