Austin ():
I've been doing a bunch of NQP and PIR coding, where Pmichaud++ has been
trying to support some kind of POD syntax. With the release of the S26
draft, he has tightened the parsing to follow more of the rules laid out in
the spec, and after a few months, I've noticed that the trend
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
(and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]:
* John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]:
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
[reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
Or, more Perl like:
[OODoc] http://perl.overmeer.net/oodoc/
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote:
* John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]:
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
[reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
Or, more Perl
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
{snip}
Gah. Sorry for the quasi-double-post. I posted on google groups, it
didn't show up, then I jumped the gun and posted a similar message to
the ML.
Author: lwall
Date: 2010-02-10 18:10:26 +0100 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 29675
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod
Log:
[Spec] squash [;] fossils noticed by eternaleye++
Modified:
John Gabriele wrote:
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
(and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]:
Carl observed:
Partly that is because documentation isn't at the forefront of things
that need to be implemented for Perl 6 to be useful, so it's kind of
lagging behind the rest.
Partly it's because Damian is the owner of that synopsis, and he
practices a kind of drive-by-updating to it. As
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
Second, POD is not XML, and it definitely isn't DOCBOOK. Why do I
need magic reserved words like TOC and APPENDIX? I'm not writing a
book, I'm writing code. And if I was writing a book, I wouldn't be
dumb enough to write it in
