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From:
Gisle Aas
Date:
October 28, 1999 09:13
Subject:
Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT
Message ID:
m34sfbsc14.fsf@eik.g.aas.no
"M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> wrote
> > -In addition to the key-value pairs accepted by L<IO::Socket>,
> > +In addition to the key-value pairs accepted by C<IO::Socket>,
> >  C<IO::Socket::INET> provides.
> 
> Why are you suppressing that link?   Seems to me the Perl documentation
> needs more links rather than less.   Or is the link broken or something?

Because pod2man converts L<Foo> to "the Foo manpage".  That makes the
sentence above come out as:

           In addition to the key-value pairs accepted by the
           IO::Socket manpage, IO::Socket::INET provides.

This feature also make L<> completely useless PODs written in
Norwegian :-(

Regards,
Gisle

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