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Autrijus Tang wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:03:45PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
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>>Sean M. Burke wrote:
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>>>If I may critique podchecker for a minute: BULLSHIT!
>>>
>>>
>>Well actually, if we reformulate F<...> as "this is an URI", pod2html's
>>habit to turn F<http://...> into links makes sense retroactively.
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>That contradicts existing usage.
>
Quickly grepping over the perl-current source tells that L<> is far more
commonly used for linking web addresses than F<>:
moxliukas@hacks:/mnt/perl/current$ grep -r 'L<http' . | wc -l
151
moxliukas@hacks:/mnt/perl/current$ grep -r 'F<http' . | wc -l
15
So my feeling would be that all those F<> should be changed to L<>s --
they only occur in a couple of PODs and modules DB_File,
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Install, Test::More, Test::Simple and
Test::Builder. I am attaching patches to perldelta.pod, perlreref.pod,
README.cygwin and README.tru64 that fixes F<>s to L<>s.
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Petras Kudaras