Ricardo SIGNES <[email protected]> writes: > I am not clear on whether this paragraph says or means much: > > Throughout this document, "Pod" has been the preferred spelling for > the name of the documentation format. One may also use "POD" or > "pod". For the documentation that is (typically) in the Pod format, > you may use "pod", or "Pod", or "POD". Understanding these > distinctions is useful; but obsessing over how to spell them, > usually is not. > > So: the format is POD, Pod or pod, but a document is the pod, Pod, or > POD?
I have always referred to it as POD, and all of my POD utilities and all of their documentation have always done so as well. I apparently never noticed that bit. > Is it trying to say that all three are always acceptable and not to > worry about it? That would be my preference. Other parts of Perl documentation (such as perlsyn) use Pod, POD, and pod interchangeably right now. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
