Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Today, in a fit of apparently boundless masochism, I started reading
> some of Pod/Parser.pm.  I came across these two lines in
> parse_from_filehandle:

>         if ((! length $paragraph) && ($textline =~ /^==/)) {
>             ## '==' denotes a one-line command paragraph

> That's news to me.

> Does anything other than Pod::Parser observe this "==foo" syntax?

It doesn't require any other support in the translators, so I believe any
that use Pod::Parser support it automatically.

It was discussed a few times on perl5-porters in the past.  I don't recall
how widespread the usage of it was.  It comes up when there are complaints
about POD requiring too much vertical whitespace.

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

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