Re: `=item 1. Text` Doesn't Produce Ordered List Item

On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> No. I told the person who reported this issue to use that, and it is the
>> proper way to do it. But note that this works:
> 
>> =item * Foo
> 
>> =item * Bar
> 
>> That creates an unordered list. Given that, I would expect the
>> corresponding syntax to work for ordered lists:
> 
>> =item 1 Foo
> 
>> =item 2 Bar
> 
>> And it does, when run through pod2html, but not when run through
>> Pod::Simple. So the question is, given this Pod, who's right? pod2html
>> or Pod::Simple?
> 
> perlpodspec says that the former is an unordered list and the latter is a
> description list.  I think pod2html is wrong here.

If so, my next question would be: how dependent are people on this? Is it something we want to consider adding to the spec? Or should pod2html be changed to remove this interpretation?

Best,

David