Re: Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com [2010-03-15T13:32:28] Comments? From perlpodspec (presented as verbatim text): =item C $thing-stuff(Idodad) Further, I see nothing that implies that C Cfoo should be rendered as Cfoo rather than foo I don't know that I realized this was the

RE: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, David E. Wheeler wrote: Comments? I agree with the bug report, FWIW (just based on reading the report, I haven't verified that nested formatting has been broken). Cheers, -Jan Begin forwarded message: From: Christopher J. Madsen via RT bug-pod-sim...@rt.cpan.org

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: Is there anyone who can provide a reading of the spec to support the change? Do you (David) remember what part of the spec convinced you? When I made the change, I wasn't aware of the spec, but based the change on `perlpod`, particularly

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com [2010-03-15T14:56:48] C open(X, thing.dat) || die $! C $foo−bar(); which is presumably easier to read than the old way: Copen(X, EgtEgtthing.dat) || die $! C$foo−Egtbar(); My

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: In other words, the only change /C{2,}\s+/ has over /C{1}/ is that it changes the number of 's that are needed to close that code. Fewer 's than that are just text. Frustrating. Well, should it change to that? If we can all agree on a

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:28:15PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: In other words, the only change /C{2,}\s+/ has over /C{1}/ is that it changes the number of 's that are needed to close that code. Fewer 's than that are just text.

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com [2010-03-15T19:28:15] Well, should it change to that? If we can all agree on a proper solution and update the spec to be specific, I'm happy to modify Pod::Simple (if I can find the tuits) to match that. FWIW, I blogged about this when 3.09 came out:

Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

2010-03-15 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: ...and clearly I agreed! I'm not sure whether I misunderstood or was just wrong. Either way, I think the change was incorrect. I will try to write an update for the spec soon. Okay. Once that's done and we have consensus, I'll try to find