Re: [p5p] pod bugs

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Johan Vromans writes:
 > Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> writes:
 > 
 > > I'm somewhat disquieted by all these workarounds to people mistakenly
 > > putting spaces or tabs in their pod lines that they meant to be blank.
 > > By hacking the translators, you don't help those who use $/ = '' to 
 > > parse pod.  This is easy and desirable, and you're just encouraging its
 > > breakage.  I hope that these non-paragraph paragraphs give mandatory 
 > > warnings so they'll be fixed.
 > 
 > Using invisible whitespace for significant purposes is insane.

s/ /0/g,s/	/1/g,print pack "B8",$_ for split/:/,q, 	  	 	 : 			 	 	: 			  		: 			 	  :  	     : 		    	: 		 			 : 		 				: 			 	  : 		 	   : 		  	 	: 			  	 :  	     : 	 	    : 		  	 	: 			  	 : 		 		  :  	     : 		 	   : 		    	: 		   		: 		 	 		: 		  	 	: 			  	 :  	 		  :  	     ,

Okay, not necessarily a significant purpose, nor pod, nor character
set portable... :-)
 
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