On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:49:40PM -0600, Nick Pinckernell wrote: > Hello All, > My name is Nick Pinckernell.
Hi Nick, Other people have already commented on most of your points, so I won't repeat, except to say that I agree that the name "perldoc" is already taken, and that POD really is pretty awesome. > I think this idea would be really good for Perl 6, because, in my opinion, > POD is lacking. Something that I think would be a lot more helpful would be to get involved in the rewrite of POD. The 5.8 spec (which I believe is the latest???) can be found here: http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlpodspec.html Personally, there are only two things that I wish were different about POD: 1) The way links (L<>)work. AFAICT, the 5.8 spec answers all my concerns. 2) Some way to indent command paragraphs and/or "condense" my POD, so that I could (e.g.) do things like this: =over 4 =item 1) Foo =over 4 =item * Bar =item * Bar =item * Bar =item * Bar =back =item 2) Foo =item 3) Foo =back Other than that, I think (and have always thought) that POD is pretty close to perfect. --Dks
