Re: Removal of specific Pod::Checker warnings
[email protected] (Russ Allbery)
| Newsgroups | perl.pod-people |
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| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ronald J Kimball <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:19:45PM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: >> You're correct. Under "Pod Commands", =item is listed as a bare item. >> I don't know why there is a note for being forgiving for a valid >> structure, but it's confusing. And, of course, if it's valid, it can't >> be bad style. > What? Valid syntax can most definitely be bad style. That's why we > have style checkers in the first place. Yeah, but is Pod::Checker really intended to be a style checker? My impression was that it was more intended to be like the warnings flag to a compiler or like use warnings in Perl: something to warn about stuff that's technically syntactically valid but probably in error. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>