Re: Pod::Simple can treat binary as pod due to liberal/inconsistent regexp patterns

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler") Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:39:03 -0800
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
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On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nobody has explained to me why we accept uppercase when all existing pod commands (I believe) are entirely lowercase.  And shouldn't the digits only be in the final position?  I don't know the answers, but am just pointing out potential problems.

I think it is an historical thing. No harm in it, really. I would not be surprised if there were uppercase Pod commands in the wild.

David
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