On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:17:26AM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote: > At 07:00 PM 2003-08-21 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >Either way, what about the alternative formattings that don't appear to need > >look-aheads? > [namely:] > >And if it doesn't have an ordered list starting at 1, simply treat it like > >any normal list of strings. > > OK, this in now implemented in the new Pod-Simple-0.98.tar.gz. > > ChangeLog say: > 2003-09-01 Sean M. Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Release 0.98 > * At Michael Schwern's suggestion, a list that begins with a > "=item [number]" line where number isn't a 1, is no longer > treated as an error, but instead is silently coerced into being a > text-item list, just as if it were "=item wubble" or whatever.
Thanks. Would you agree to striking out the "Note that the numbers must start at 1 in each section, and must proceed in order and without skipping numbers" rule from the =over/=back spec for numeric =items? PS On a related note, I don't understand the whole "=item 1." thing. Is that to say that "=item 1." should be considered numeric and equivalent to "=item 1"? If so, why is this exception in the spec? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ It's Absinthe time!
