On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:26, Larry Wall wrote: > ch26/011.cf Examples encoded with =also for|begin|end POD commands > ch26/044 Bring Documentation Closer To Whatever It Documents > ch26/065 Add change bar functionality to pod > ch26/079 The Predefined POD Streams are C<perl>, C<data>, and C<doc> > ch26/216 POD should tolerate white space. > ch26/217 POD needs a reorder command. > ch26/280 Tweak POD's CE<lt>E<gt> > ch26/286 Add a "emit pod" runtime option to Perl > ch26/306 User-definable POD handling > ch26/325 POD and comments handling in perl > ch26/357 Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD > > POD definitely needs some tweaks, some of which we've already > published. What it doesn't need is to be turned into TeX or XML.
Well, I failed to avoid scanning through this until tonight (bad Aaron, do work!), and I noticed this. I just want to emphatically agree! POD has really taken root anywhere that I've planted it BECAUSE it is so simple and so easy to use. People fire up vi or notepad and edit a POD document where any other form of editing would have posed a mental hurdle. I'd love to see POD become more compact vertically (e.g. not as much reliance on blank lines), and also a better implementation of X and L, but other than that I think POD is a wonderful format and one of the strenghts of the Perl distribution. -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
