Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I sense a crucial divergence between what I'm saying, and what you think
> I'm saying.  I did not say that as of Saturday, I would declare perlpod
> and perlpodspec done forever, and reject any further comments on them,
> under penalty of vitrification and/or defenestration.

> What I did say is that people can't talk to be about DRAFT ONE of each,
> after Saturday -- because that's when I expire DRAFT ONE, and go off and
> feverishly try producing draft two.  I very much hope to have draft two
> out by mid September, in time for you to read.  Once they're out, people
> can talk to me those.

Ah!  Okay.  Never mind, then.  :)

> What you apparently thought I said, was this:

>  Pod FORMATTERS MUST NEVER try to...

> Pod::Man can continue to intelligently turn "--" into E<emdash> as it
> sees fit, because it's not a parser, it's a formatter.

Oops.  Okay, that makes much more sense, and I have no objections to that
at all.  Clearly I should actually *read* the documents, and I'm sorry to
have butted in with a complete misunderstanding.  Reassured that there
isn't a rush, I will now crawl back into my hole and try to get back to
all of this in a month or two.  *wry grin*

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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