At 11:52 2002-07-22 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> >http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?filename=pod%2Fperlpodsp 
> ec.pod&action=print

Dammit, apparently ActiveState's bleadperl repository is broken, and years 
out of date.  Gooooooo Activestate!

Instead, see:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/JHI/perl-5.8.0/pod/perlpod.pod

>Is that new to the 5.8 documentation?

Sort of.  It's about a year old; it was in 5.7, I think.


>Unfortunately, that will work for this simple example, but it doesn't work
>for something more sophisticated, e.g., when you want to have a word in
>text lead to a dictionary entry.

It may surprise/dazzle/appall you to hear this, but your point has already 
occurred to me.
But infinite sophistication is not the highest design goal of the Pod format.

--
Sean M. Burke    http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

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