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

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:

> It is a bug, insofar as it is behavior not in line with the requirements of the
> specification.  If you're saying that the specification was always mistaken in
> its attempt to document preexisting behavior, I will totally buy that.

Yes.

> In that case, I would be all for seeing the spec fixed and then the
> implementation to match it -- but the spec has to be fixed!  If I work on
> Pod-parsing tools, I need to be able to match them against the spec, not
> against a reference implementation that violates it.  That's my main concern,
> here.

Yes, I would like to see the spec changed. The best argument not to, IMHO, is Sean's reading of the current spec:

  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pod-people/2010/07/msg1536.html

Best,

David
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