Re: [DOC PATCH] teach perlfaq1 about 5.10

Joshua Juran wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:41 AM, brian d foy wrote:
> 
>> In article <[email protected]>, Paul Johnson
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. I'll fix those up today.
>>
>>>  Versions prior to perl5.004 had serious security problems with buffer
>>>  overflows, and in some cases have CERT advisories (for instance,
>>> -http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html ).
>>> +http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html).
>>
>> By convention we're putting a space after all URLs so the succeeding
>> characters aren't treated as part of the URL by other processors. :)
> 
> I thought the convention was to enclose the URL in angled brackets, e.g.
> <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html>.

That or go all the way and use L<>.

From perlpod...

           Or you can link to a web page:

           *   "L<scheme:...>"

               Links to an absolute URL.  For example,
               "L<http://www.perl.org/>".  But note that there is no corre-
               sponding "L<text|scheme:...>" syntax, for various reasons.


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