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

At 09:43 2002-11-13 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>>I thought about putting something of the sort into perldpodspec and 
>>Pod::Simple, but didn't see a particularly clean way to have it so that 
>>1) you wouldn't have to depend on a particular Pod-parsing module, and 
>>which 2) could work in cases where the Pod-parser and the formatter are 
>>sanely segregated.
>I'd say that neither of those characteristics is true of Perl 5's C<use>, 
>and yet that's how we got CPAN.  Cleanliness is nice, but extensibility is 
>crucial.

Well, I have been writing Pod::Simple with the goal of it being the only 
Pod parser anyone would ever want to use.
But I wouldn't object if it were the only Pod parser anyone could ever use 
-- or at least "=use" with.  After all, like XML::Parser (well, plus SAX), 
it presents every kind of sane markup interface anyone would ever want.

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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/