karl williamson <[email protected]> writes:

> And in fact, recommends not using L<> to anything other than another pod.

> This seems like a useful feature, which is supported at least in html.

Yes, I disagree with this as well and have POD conversion software that
relies on being able to use L<> for man pages, URLs, and several other
things that aren't POD.

If you have tools available to create real links for man pages, you want
to allow specifying man pages in L<>, since otherwise you have to make
guesses at whether something(1) is a man page reference or something else.
So this is a bad thing to deprecate.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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