Re: How can one put a table into a pod

On 04/23/2011 06:23 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 04/23/2011 03:12 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>> On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>>> I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using
>>> as-is formatting, but it's not very good.
>>
>> There also doesn't appear to be a way to extend the pod language in a
>> backwards compatible way.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> You can subclass Pod::Simple to produce a formatter capable of parsing
> all normal pod, plus tables. For a good example of this, see
> Pod::PseudoPod. The table formatting it uses is demonstrated in:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~arandal/Pod-PseudoPod-0.16/lib/Pod/PseudoPod/Tutorial.pod#Tables
>
>
> (Or, perhaps this implementation of tables will be enough for your
> purposes, and you won't need your own subclass.)
>
> Allison
>

That explains how to do it.  Thanks.  I would like something like this 
for the core Perl 5 documentation.  Are there reasons besides inertia 
for this to not be shipped with the Perl core?