On 06/29/2009 10:48:26 AM, Jerome Quelin wrote: > On 09/06/29 10:39 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > 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. > > > > Or am I wrong? Perhaps there's a better way? > > you might be interested to look at how getopt::euclid does it. it > uses > =for Euclid instructions > > aren't those modules kind of equivalent in fact? what are the > advantages > and drawbacks for each of them?
Jérôme, thanks. The key difference between Auto and Euclid is that Simon wanted to subject the POD writer to minimal inconvienence. I should have mentioned that option processing results in a call to main::foo, which would permit the user to do whatever checking was needed.
