Re: pod bugs

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>> People keep putting spaces or tabs on otherwise blank lines in the
>> pod files.

>Hmmn - Pod::Parser treats lines matching /^\*$/ the same as blank lines
>(which was okay with p5p at the time - is this still the case??)

>I believe pod2text and pod2man now use Pod::Parser. Am I correct in
>assuming the /^\s+$/ lines are causing problems for you using pod2html?

>If you're getting problems from pod2text or pod2man in the latest stuff
>for 5.6 then I have a bug to fix.

I was using a pod2text from some release back.  Yes, the version
in _63 "works", but this is not a "fix" I enjoy seeing.  It should
issue warnings on broken pod.   Pod is paragraph-based.  A paragraph
ends in two or more consecutive newlines.  You're just making up for
mistakes that will bite other people later.

You're welcome to introduce a pragma that changes what $/ means, I suppose.

--tom

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