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

* "David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> [2010-11-11T23:06:22]
> Coming back to this, now that we're trying to get Pod::Simple ready for Perl
> 5.14. Anyone else want to vote? The only other thing I'd add is that pod2html
> (which IIRC uses Pod::Parser) treats `=item 1. foo` and `=item 1 foo` as
> ordered list items, and both pod2html and Pod::Simple treat `=item * foo` as
> ordred lists.
> 
> I'd like to make them consistent.
> 
> RJBS would not.

That is a mischaracterization.  You would like to make them consistent by
changing the spec to allow new forms.  I would like to make them consistent by
fixing the long standing bug that renders them contrary to the specification.

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rjbs