Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * It becomes decreed that Pod::Simple defines canonical Pod (and > anybody else wanting to write another parser has to mimic its > behaviour).
I would prefer that this not be the case at least yet. Whatever the other merits or demerits of Pod::Parser, the source is at least clean, readable, and well-commented so that it's easy to figure out what it's doing and why. I realize that Sean's been working hard on getting things working rather than cleaning them up, so hopefully this will improve, but at least right now the source for Pod::Simple doesn't make for a very good reference implementation, at least in my opinion. It's extremely dense, mostly uncommented, and very difficult to read. > I can't right now think of a reason why somebody would write another > Parser in Perl, I can; at least so far, Pod::Simple doesn't fit the way that I prefer to work very well. I'm not sure that anyone would write a new one from scratch, but I could readily see someone improving Pod::Parser to bring it up to the current specification. (I'm not a big fan of complete rewrites of code that already exists anyway; incremental improvement often results in a better final product, IMO.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
