Sean M. Burke wrote: > At 10:14 2002-10-08 +1000, Iain Truskett wrote: > > > > I'll add it to the whole slew of =item variances that Pod::Simple > > > kindly and silently forgives. > > > > Are these documented somewhere? > > Nope. Probably won't be, as I can't imagine anyone needing to know > about it all.
It'd be good to have them documented so that people know not to rely on them (or, alternatively, for Pod::Simple to have a strict mode that doesn't use its slew). Otherwise there's the risk of somebody running what they hope is her/his pod document through Pod::Simple, getting the output he/she expects, and believing the document to be valid. This is then distributed and causes problems for other people who try to parse it using pod readers that just implement the spec and not your slew of variances. (Similar to how people view their webpages in 'Internet Explorer', it forgives some errors, and so they are unaware of them as they publish non-standard code which doesn't work in other browsers.) Smylers
