Re: AW: AW: allowing L<text|href>

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Marek Rouchal wrote:

> sorry, I did not imply that. All I meant was to relax the spec
> (perlpodspec) to tolerate L<text|URL>, and do the same thing
> in Test::Pod, i.e. not flag L<text|URL> as an error.

Yes. The former is already done, and my patch to Test::Pod does the other.

> However, I think it would be a sensible restriction to only
> Allow absolute (not relative) URLs, i.e.
> 	http://perl.org => ok
> 	/images/diagram.jpg => NOT ok

That's already the case. They have to start with /\w+:/.

Best,

David
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