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Tim Bunce wrote: > Damian Conway wrote: > > Dave Whipp wrote: > > >I'm not a great fan of this concept of "reservation" when there is no > > >mechanism for its enforcement (and this is perl...). > > > > What makes you assume there will be no mechanism for enforcement? The > > standard Pod parser (of which I have a 95% complete Perl 5 implementation) > > will complain bitterly--as in cyanide--when unknown pure-upper or > > pure-lower block names are used. > > That's going to cause pain when people using older parsers try to read > docs written for newer ones. If I understand you correctly, the pain to which you're referring would come from the possibility of a name that's reserved by the newer version of Pod, but not by the older version. Wouldn't the simplest solution be to let a Pod document announce its own version, much like Perl can? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" LangThread Previous | Thread Next