>>>>> "MP" == Matthew Persico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> there are 2 ways i know how to do it now and both suck in different
>> ways. the first is to read the pod from the source file for the module
>> you are in. it think the pod2XXX parser author has a module which does
>> this. of course this is very slow.
MP> pod2usage is the call I THINK you are refering to. Who cares if it is
MP> slow? I'll bet that if you are writting to the screen or a file, THAT's
MP> the slow part, not traipsing through the file parsing for POD. It might
MP> make an interesting Benchmark test.
i think reading the file may have issues like finding it. or doc strings
for each sub vs. parsing that out of the whole pod. i just bothers me to
have to read that file for stuff that was in the source. so some better
syntax to make that accessible to the code seems like a win.
uri
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