Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 January 2015 at 11:38, David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com wrote: and no newlines at all inside L. Any objections? I conditionally object to that last one _IF_ It incorporates banning of this structure: L ASDF |URL Presently that format is quite useful when either URL or link text

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 January 2015 at 12:25, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: Parses correctly. Likewise: Ltext here |URL Here Is also presently valid and has the desired product. Bah, I seem to have fucked up my response grammar very badly in the edit process. Pretend my remarks are sensible

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-09 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 9, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: Presently that format is quite useful when either URL or link text is very large, and avoids tripping some line-length metrics that can't otherwise easily be satisfied in a non-global manner. I’m not proposing to remove

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-09 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:07 PM, David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com wrote: IIUC, the case that came up was Lfoo bar|http://baz.com/foo bar I am kind of inclined to just say that such things are verboten. Done by closing this issue. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93491

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-08 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com [2015-01-08T13:42:10] I think that is probably sane, but maybe there are other opinions? Should we allow whitespace in L URLs? If so, I think we would just change \S to . I didn't scrutinize the regexp (which is present in perlpodspec) closely, but URLs

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-08 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Ricardo Signes perl@rjbs.manxome.org wrote: I didn't scrutinize the regexp (which is present in perlpodspec) closely, but URLs may not contain unescape spaces, so I think there's no reason to allow it. Lfoo bar|http://baz-barshould be okay Lfoo

Re: Allow Whitespace in L URLs?

2015-01-08 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:42:10 -0800 David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com wrote: I think that is probably sane, but maybe there are other opinions? Should we allow whitespace in L URLs? URLs use + or %20 for spaces. There is no need for whitespace in a URL. -- Don't stop where the ink does.