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Re: =code language ... =back in POD

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From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
December 13, 2000 16:02
Subject:
Re: =code language ... =back in POD
Message ID:
yl7l5350pw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com> writes:

>> The two errors I get with =code =back are
>> /home/nick/test/foo.pod:15: Unknown command paragraph "=code perl"
>> Unmatched =back at /usr/local/bin/pod2text line 7
>> [hmm. Should that error give the line in the pod of the =back ?]

Yes, it should.  This is a problem with all the error messages in
pod2text; they really should give line number information.  Patches
welcome; I likely won't have time to work on this in the near future.

> I dunno how pod2text works internally, but I guess you can nest
> lists/over etc indefinteley deep. So it probably uses some stack.

Yup.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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