Re: pod bugs

[Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:12:04AM -0800, Peter Wolfe wrote:
> Hmm...  There are probably at least two options here:
> 
> 1. Fix humans to make sure they never confuse /^$/ with /^\s*$/ which is
> 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*$/.

This all reminds me of the early days of Mail::Internet when I used it
for reading mail written by humans. I allowed the header/body separator
to contain whitespace. It haunted me for a long time, until I decided
to make the humans fix themselves.

Graham.

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
Peter Wolfe <wolfe@telostech.com>

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