Re: Pod::Html's cross referencing of C<> links

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Karl Williamson
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Perhaps what is meant in the comments is that you can't use L<> to link to
> most =item's.  If you need to refer to one, perhaps you should use C<>
> markup to distinguish it from regular text.  But the C<> would be a verbal
> reference and not a clickable link.


Ah, I think you are right. Thanks for clarifying.

I don't know when the specification changed, but after another read of the
current perlpodspec<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpodspec.html#About-L%3C...%3E-Codes>,
I have an answer:

Previous versions of perlpod distinguished L<name/"section"> links from L
> <name/item> links (and their targets). These have been merged
> syntactically and semantically in the current specification, and *section*can refer either to a "=head
> *n* Heading Content" command or to a "=item Item Content" command.
>

Well, it is not an answer to my original question, but it helps me make the
executive decision to consider "C<> links" as L<> links.

Thanks for the help,
Marc