Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-05 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> bits of both systems so it all can be wedged into perl. I'd really DS> like to incorporate the good bits of VMS' async I/O and event DS> handling into perl, for example. hear! hear! as the author/maintainer of the event loop and as

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:40 PM 10/5/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:38:18PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Perl 6 is going to be the community's rewrite. His design to start, but > > the community's rewrite. (The alternative is to have the thing be *my* > > rewrite, and I don't think we w

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:08 AM 10/5/00 -0700, Peter Scott wrote: >At 01:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >>On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote: >> >> > Peter Scott wrote: >> > > the idea is to be an extension of Larry's creative thinking >> > > process. Neither of us is deciding what goes into Perl 6, and

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote: > > > Peter Scott wrote: > > > the idea is to be an extension of Larry's creative thinking > > > process. Neither of us is deciding what goes into Perl 6, and > neither is > > > the community - I hope. Larry

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-05 Thread Nathan Wiger
John Porter wrote: > > RFCs like "330: Global dynamic variables should remain the > default" should not need to be written! (No disrespect to you, > Nate.) None taken; I actually agree. Unfortunately, I thought that -strict did nowhere near enough analysis of scoping issues besides the initial s

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-04 Thread Robin Berjon
At 08:36 04/10/2000 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: >This RFC should either be retracted, or revised into: > > POD to XML translation should be easier On this subject, I have notes about a Pod::SAX module that would make pod2xml much easier. If I have time to implement it I'll do it, but I can't tel

RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-03 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Frank Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30 Sep 2000 Last Modified: 3 Oct 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: