Hi All
While you make many valid points, there is a bit of a lack of a broader
vision, crippled perhaps by an over-commitment to text mode.
This problem has been solved with the advent of the TiddlyWiki, which
use WikiText.
They use CamelCase a lot. A CamelCase word is automatically linked
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> One of the things I've wanted from nearly the start was some way of
>> marking up metasyntactic variables. POD is full of things like:
>>
>> perl
>>
>> or:
>>
>> push ARRAY,LIST
>>
>> or the like, using various conventions
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:29:41 -0700
Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" writes:
> > Ah curious - I'd be happy to hear ideas.
>
> One of the things I've wanted from nearly the start was some way of
> marking up metasyntactic variables. POD is full of things like:
>
> perl
>
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There are a few things that I've wanted to have in POD
>> for a while, although nothing that rose to the level of wanting to do
>> the work required to get it widely supported.
> Ah curious - I'd be happy to hear ideas.
One of the
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:36:11 +0100
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" wrote:
> It sounds, therefore, like there's a lack of process at all. It isn't
> clear to me whether new additions should happen first in the actual
> spec, and we expect implementors to support them, or should actual
> implementations
> Since there is one specification document - being pod/perlpod.pod in
> perl core itself - that would feel to be a good place to begin the
> process.
>
> Maybe we should begin by raising a PR to change that file, and hope to
> get some review comment and general acceptance from people on the
>
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:02:44 +0200
Mark Overmeer wrote:
> Just as Dmitry Karasik experienced, I encountered blockades by core
> maintainers to even think about improvements...
Hi. I'm here.
> My biggest complaints:
> - Pod uses visual markup, like =item, where it should use
> semantic
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:32:35 +0200
Dmitry Karasik wrote:
> So I agree the process is as clear as
> mud. If the community can resolve this social problem, there are old
> threads about the images in pod and I believe many have still have
> interest in this.
It sounds, therefore, like there's a
* Paul "LeoNerd" Evans (leon...@leonerd.org.uk) [230921 17:29]:
> There's ultimately a choice to be made - is POD still alive, as a
> specification, a technology? Can we continue to add new features to it?
Just as Dmitry Karasik experienced, I encountered blockades by core
maintainers to even
> I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on the features
> themselves, but rather to work out *who* are the people to really get
> into that chat, and what level of interest people have in actually
> moving forward. I would like to be in a position where we can
> confidently go about
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:57:17 -0700
Russ Allbery wrote:
> There are a few things that I've wanted to have in POD
> for a while, although nothing that rose to the level of wanting to do
> the work required to get it widely supported.
Ah curious - I'd be happy to hear ideas.
My overall feeling is
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" writes:
> I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on the features
> themselves, but rather to work out *who* are the people to really get
> into that chat, and what level of interest people have in actually
> moving forward.
I am interested. I probably
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