Re: Allow Whitespace in L<> URLs?

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler") Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:38:47 -0800
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
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On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:07 PM, David E. Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> IIUC, the case that came up was
> 
>    L<foo bar|http://baz.com/foo
>    bar>
> 
> I am kind of inclined to just say that such things are verboten.

Done by closing this issue. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93491

> However, ticket 95710 offers up this example:
> 
>    L<DEMO with NL|
>    /DEMO> and trailing text
> 
> It’s not just URLs that we need to decide how to deal with, I guess.

I think this one should be rejected, too. Really, there should be no whitespace on either side of the |, and no newlines at all inside L<>. Any objections?

Best,

David
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