Re: pod bugs

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

>1. Fix humans to make sure they never confuse /^$/ with /^\s*$/ which is

You mean /^$/ versus /^[ \t]+$/, I think.

>probably possible but seems hard :-).  Seems to me that humans (even the
>super ones on this list) are prone to confusion.

>2. Fix Perl which seems capable of doing most things - hard or easy and
>which has demonstrated that it is capable of understanding what humans mean
>not what they say.

>I would vote for fixing pod2... tools so that "blank lines" match the
>pattern /^\s*$/.

I'd rather deprecate $/.  And I don't want to do that, either.

--tom

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