On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:55:57PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > 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.
That's going to cause pain when people using older parsers try to read docs written for newer ones. Would a loud warning plus some best-efforts fail-safe parsing be possible? Tim. > 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
