Quoth ge...@hughes.net (Geoffrey Leach):
> I'd appreciate some advice here.
>
> Getopt::Auto was conceived by Simon Cozens. I've recently adopted it.
>
> The idea with Getopt::Auto is that it scans your POD looking for =heads
> or =item that have the format: 'foo - what this does is bar', the
> single word followed by a dash being the critical parts, and constructs
> an option-recognition scheme for foo.
>
> All this is well and good, but it seems to me that there's a flaw,
> which is that there's no way to say that foo takes a string, or int, or
> ...
>
> So that needs to be specified, and while 'foo - ....' is probably
> acceptable to the POD writer, 'foo int - ...' might be less so, taking
> into account that all of that appears in your POD's paragraph headings.
Something like
=item foo (number) - ...
might be OK. As Jonathan said, this must be strictly optional, of
course.
Ben
