> I guess mostly the syntax highlighting is the biggest concern. I > use emacs and that does syntax highlighting for perl files. Is there any > IDE out there that highlights POD differently than code? If that was the > case then I probably wouldn't have a problem with in-module POD. I guess > when it comes down to it it's readability and the ability to distinguish > comments from code.
Emacs does. iirc cperl-mode has proper (i.e. "different") highlighting for POD, and if you want to do it right, you can use mmm-mode to mix cperl mode and pod mode. -R