Re: Synposis 26 - Documentation [alpha draft]

[Damian Conway]

Dave Whipp wrote:

I'm not a great fan of this concept of "reservation" when there is no 
mechanism for its enforcement (and this is perl...).

What makes you assume there will be no mechanism for enforcement? The standard 
Pod parser (of which I have a 95% complete Perl 5 implementation) will 
complain bitterly--as in cyanide--when unknown pure-upper or pure-lower block 
names are used.

The whole point of reserving these namespaces is not to prevent users from 
misusing them, but to ensure that when we eventually get around to using a 
particular block name, and those same users start screaming about it, we can 
mournfully point to the passage in the original spec and silently shake our 
heads. ;-)

Damian