Andy Lester spotted what I think is the first substantial problem with Pod::Simple and perlpodspec (!!) the other day! It's this:
Some people, including Andy, use this construct: =item * Foo bar baz to mean what I always thought one absolutely had to express with: =item * Foo bar baz This isn't just some idiosyncracy of Andy's -- I just stabbed around at random in the Pod corpus on my MSWin laptop's ActiveState install, and found that perlcygwin.pod has things like: =item * Pathnames And Tk/Entry.pod has things like =item * The proposed value of the entry. If you are configuring the entry widget to have a new textvariable, this will be the value of that textvariable. I think I'll have no trouble altering Pod::Simple to take care of this (and to try to remember to get around to altering perlpodspec), but I thought I might bring this syntactic variance to the attention of the list, as it's news to me at least! -- Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
