> POD should tolerate white space where it now requires empty lines
[...]
> =head1 IMPLEMENTATION
>
> Seems like it should be just a regexp stuck in somewhere
I think this is a specific problem calling for a more general solution.
I can think of two possible ones:
1. A standard library func
Andy Dougherty wrote:
>
> 1. A standard library function to safely but forgivingly read in a
> "paragraph". I have cc'd perl6-stdlib since this strikes me as a sensible
> candidate for the standard library.
I like this idea a lot. It would work very well with my RFC 79.
> 2. Allowing $/ (o
At 10:38 AM 9/13/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > 2. Allowing $/ (or its successor, perhaps set on a per-filehandle
> > basis) to be a regular expression, not a string. (Surely there's an RFC
> > on that somewhere.)
>
>This is a good idea too, and should probably be considered independently.
*A
At 09:19 AM 9/13/00 -0700, I wrote:
>At 10:38 AM 9/13/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>> > 2. Allowing $/ (or its successor, perhaps set on a per-filehandle
>> > basis) to be a regular expression, not a string. (Surely there's an RFC
>> > on that somewhere.)
>>
>>This is a good idea too, and should
