jida...@jidanni.org writes: > Please report/apply this upstream for me. I can't. They locked me out. > > --- /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/pod/perlfunc.pod 2009-07-09 05:47:14.000000000 > +0800 > +++ /tmp/perlfunc.pod 2009-07-23 02:22:59.314766616 +0800 > @@ -741,8 +741,8 @@ > number of characters removed from all its arguments. It's often used to > remove the newline from the end of an input record when you're worried > that the final record may be missing its newline. When in paragraph > -mode (C<$/ = "">), it removes all trailing newlines from the string. > -When in slurp mode (C<$/ = undef>) or fixed-length record mode (C<$/> is > +mode ($/ = ""), it removes all trailing newlines from the string. > +When in slurp mode ($/ = undef) or fixed-length record mode (C<$/> is > a reference to an integer or the like, see L<perlvar>) chomp() won't > remove anything. > If VARIABLE is omitted, it chomps C<$_>. Example:
This specific change is wrong. However, I wonder if pod2man should suppress the surrounding "" if the C<> material starts or ends with a double-quote. (They're already suppressed if the whole string is surrounded with double-quotes.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
