[Doc-SIG] Re: POD (resend)

[Juergen Hermann]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:35:46 -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

>I don't mind at all if a doc presentation system wants to be clever abo=
ut
>what I wrote, just so long as I don't have to think about it. 

I do mind that. I don't mind if the system _IS_ clever about it . ;)

>names and italics for method names -- today, much of the time".  I expe=
ct I'd
>rather see no markup at all than that inconsistent gibberish -- Ping ca=
n
>figure out what they meant better than they can!  Class, method and fun=
ction
>names are indeed easily obtained via parsing the module.

And can be very misleading in some cases (I have functions named "text",=
 for 
example, which could make this text :) quite confusing after formatting)=
. I'd 
prefer to mark up code with C<> (or whatever explicit markup) and then h=
ave the 
doc system only be clever about what's inside C<> (like em for function =
names, 
bold for operators, etc.).

I DO see the problem with using physical markup like I<> for identifiers=
, because 
everyone would do it differently.

Ciao, J=FCrgen