Re: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake (nested formatting codes)

[email protected] (Allison Randal) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:48:59 -0500

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Russ Allbery wrote:
> This is not the sort of thing that one gets to change retroactively, I'm
> afraid, no matter how nice it would be for consistency.

Agreed on keeping Perl 5 pod changes minimal, but I thought it always 
worked that way. Does anyone have an old pod parser around to test?

Where the spec is unclear, either the (prior) implementation is the 
spec, or we create the spec.

Allison