On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> >Hm... removing L<sec> also removes all my good plausible examples.
>
> Removing L<sec>? Did I do that?
Yep. And thank you.
> [looking] Hm, I don't see L<sec> in the old (current, pre-rewrite) perlpod.
> Was L<sec> an old syntax that was previously removed?
>From the current perlpod:
L<"sec"> section in this manual page
(the quotes are optional)
Without the quotes, it becomes L<sec>, which is syntactically
indistinguishable from L<name>. So you had to potentially search the
current document for a matching section, search the user's directories for
a matching module name, and search all of CPAN for matching a module name,
And in the end, you may still have to guess whether the author meant
L<sec> or L<name>.
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Tim Gim Yee
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