Re: Perldoc Project

[email protected] (Nick Pinckernell) wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:49:40 -0600:
>I have just recently taken over the sourceforge project 
>perldoc.  However,  currently, there is not much there.  It was started 
>about a year ago, and no work was ever done on the idea by the previous 
>project owner.

The Sourceforge project is called "perldoc"?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perldoc/
Ya know, that's a really bad name.  The name "perldoc" already has an 
established meaning, and it's not that.

>The idea is: a structured Javadoc style system for Perl.  It would be very 
>dependant on multiline comments (I've seen the Perl 6 RFC).
>I think this idea would be really good for Perl 6, because, in my opinion, 
>POD is lacking.

Lacking how?

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