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John Porter writes: : Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: : > Nathan Torkington wrote: : > > Why not just L<RFC21> ? It's shorter. : > : > The main thing I have been struggling with is (to quote perlpod(1)): : > L<name> manual page : > whereas: : > L<name/"sec"> section in other manual page : > : > Thus, I didn't think we'd want to pollute the man page space with our RFC's, : > but I did think it might be possible that there would be a "perl6-RFCs" man : > page, with sections for each RFC. : : I think we can safely presume that the pod-to-foo translators will have : been locally hacked to account for the RFC-ish nature of the documents. : IOW, that L<RFC1> will be correctly translated into : <a href="/rfc/1.html">RFC1</a> or some such. I'd say it's a flaw in pod that you can't import a policy like that with some sort of "=use" declaration. LarryThread Previous | Thread Next