Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-24 Thread Sean M. Burke
(I've seen the Perl 6 RFC). I think this idea would be really good for Perl 6, because, in my opinion, POD is lacking. Lacking how? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-24 Thread Sean M. Burke
- 30,000 BC dtUpper Paleolithic dd30,000 - 10,000 BC dtEpipaleolithic Era dd1 - c. 5500 BC dtPredynastic Period dd5500 - 3100 BC /dl But frankly, I don't see this as a /pressing/ problem. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: The eternal use XXX instead of POD debate (was: Project Start: ?Section 1)

2002-11-13 Thread Sean M. Burke
anyone would ever want to use. But I wouldn't object if it were the only Pod parser anyone could ever use -- or at least =use with. After all, like XML::Parser (well, plus SAX), it presents every kind of sane markup interface anyone would ever want. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org

Re: The eternal use XXX instead of POD debate (was: Project Start: ?Section 1)

2002-11-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
they're not talking about Pod at all, but just some some appalling old version of Pod::Html or Pod::Man. It's like complaining that Perl doesn't have objects since you never know when you'll be using Perl 4. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

Re: something similar to Attribute access syntax sighted

2000-11-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
), it means @x[2,3]. Similarly, *x is length($x) or scalar(@x) or scalar(keys %x), depending. And, one I've always liked: ?x for a string is a random character, and for a list or table, a random element. -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/