Re: deprecating L<"Section">

[email protected] (Allison Randal)
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * "David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> [2009-12-01T14:03:21]
>> Jesus Christ.
>>
>> I don't think they should be in Pod::Simple. So I'd like to remove them.
>> Anyone else have any opinions? Allison? HDP? RJBS? TorgoX?
> 
> I do not like them in Pod-Simple.  I think if they are in Pod-Spec, it's a
> little easier to move Pod ahead without touching core, because all(?) pod tools
> are dual-lived anyway.
> 
> My preference for canonical copies, in order: Pod-Spec, core, Pod-Simple

I'd say keep them in core. They're part of the core definition of Perl 
syntax, and apply across all possible implementations of pod parsers.

My guess is that their current inclusion in Pod::Simple is a side-effect 
of history (Sean wrote them while working on Pod::Simple).

Allison
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