Re: [p5p] pod bugs

[JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans)]

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.

If those who want to parse pod use a standard parser like Pod::Parser,
and Pod::Parser knows how to deal with blank lines, all problems are
over.

-- Johan

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

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Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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