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From:
brian d foy
Date:
September 29, 2009 17:27
Subject:
Re: Minor formatting fix (reported as Debian bug)
Message ID:
290920091927346563%brian.d.foy@gmail.com
In article
<dc5c751d0909291500x757e96ebx621045916ea46de0@mail.gmail.com>, Joshua
ben Jore <twists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez
> <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I maintain the perl-doc-html package for Debian.  Bug #514814 [0] was
> > reported and the attached patch fixes the bug.  Please incorporate this
> > into the next release.
> 
> Thanks, applied but I realized afterward that your original syntax was
> also incorrect so I wrote a follow-on commit to fix it.

I think it was mostly correct before, but shouldn't have the I<>.

Is there a reason it isn't just:

     C<< <filehandle> >>

An italic filehandle denoting a stand-in doesn't seem to be a doc
convention (or, there are a lot of similar things to change to enfore
this convention).

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