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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:26:37AM -0800, Gisle Aas wrote:
> You forgot to grep for how often you find URLs without any markers at
> all. Why is there a need for markup when POD parsers should be able
> to guess what is URLs quite easily. Isn't POD supposed to be plain?
> [gisle@eik perl-current]$ find . -name \*.pod | xargs grep http: | wc
> 579 2175 43471
Well, L<> is conveniently used to delimit things like:
Please post your ideas on L<http://example.com/something.html>.
This module queries L<http://example.com/search?q=test>...
But yes, using plain URLs in PODs are fine. I merely wish to avoid
using F<> for that purpose. :-)
Thanks,
/Autrijus/