On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > It is a bug, insofar as it is behavior not in line with the requirements of > the > specification. If you're saying that the specification was always mistaken in > its attempt to document preexisting behavior, I will totally buy that.
Yes. > In that case, I would be all for seeing the spec fixed and then the > implementation to match it -- but the spec has to be fixed! If I work on > Pod-parsing tools, I need to be able to match them against the spec, not > against a reference implementation that violates it. That's my main concern, > here. Yes, I would like to see the spec changed. The best argument not to, IMHO, is Sean's reading of the current spec: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pod-people/2010/07/msg1536.html Best, David
