Re: The eternal "use XXX instead of POD" debate (was: Project Start: ?Section 1)

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:15:23PM -0700, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> wrote on Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:50:34 -0800:

> >and the ability to turn syntax inferencing on a per-document basis.
> 
> On the Pod-people list, we have mostly decided that those inference rules 
> are more trouble than they are worth, precisely because they are 
> unpredictable, and typically there's no way to disable them.  I am entirely 
> happy with a future for Pod where no formatter (or, god help us, a parser) 
> thinks it its duty to turn "an O(N) solution" into "an C<O(N)> solution".

No. no. no. That should be "an L<O(N)> solution" because it's clearly a
man page reference. (Single character in brackets following a word)

(in other words I agree with Sean)

Nicholas Clark