Re: What to do about L and L<"Foo Bar">

2018-05-29 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:40:08 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > So I'm tentatively on the side of just leaving things alone, but I > don't maintain any of the code that tries to generate links and cares > about the places where this ambiguity might cause problems. Leave the code alone (for now) but

Re: What to do about L and L<"Foo Bar">

2018-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Karl Williamson writes: > I don't understand how things have changed. Please explain how in fact > they have. My belief is that things haven't changed for a long time > now, and things continue to work, without complaint. There are no > tickets against Pod::Simple for any cases of it using

Re: What to do about L and L<"Foo Bar">

2018-05-29 Thread Grant McLean
On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 15:20 +1000, Ron Savage wrote: > On 29/05/18 13:49, Karl Williamson wrote: > > The question is what to do? > > > > 1) We could leave things as they always have been, to let sleeping > > dogs  > > lie.  It's worked for so long that we're not seriously going to > > stop  > >

Re: What to do about L and L<"Foo Bar">

2018-05-28 Thread Ron Savage
Hi Karl See below. On 29/05/18 13:49, Karl Williamson wrote: podspec says this: Previous versions of perlpod allowed for a "L" syntax (as in "L"), which was not easily distinguishable from "L" syntax and for "L<"section">" which was only slightly less ambiguous. This syntax is no longer in

What to do about L and L<"Foo Bar">

2018-05-28 Thread Karl Williamson
podspec says this: Previous versions of perlpod allowed for a "L" syntax (as in "L"), which was not easily distinguishable from "L" syntax and for "L<"section">" which was only slightly less ambiguous. This syntax is no longer in the specification, and has been replaced by the "L" syntax (where