On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:18:15AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> POD should tolerate white space where it now requires empty lines
I used to trip over this problem alot in my code. In fact, patches
#5507 and #5493 to perl were just about stripping whitespace out of
POD, IIRC.
I can't think any reason why POD tags require "\n" instead of /^\s*$/.
I mean, there's some ludicrous cases of ambiguities:
use constant for => 2;
$foo
=for + 2;
Does $foo == 4 or is that a POD tag? Very contrived, I don't think
this sort of thing will be a problem. I can't think of a time when
I've ever put an '=' flush left.
I'm sure this has come up on p5p before, but I can't find anything
relevent in the archives.
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