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Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.pod guidelines

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 6, 2010 05:52
Subject:
Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.pod guidelines
Message ID:
20100406125219.GT9998@plum.flirble.org
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:38:24PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> BTW, the reason why examples like this:
> 
>    #  0    1    2     3     4    5     6     7     8
>    ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
>                                                localtime(time);
> 
> are *not* written
> 
> 
>    # 0     1     2      3      4     5      6      7      8
>    ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) =
>                                                localtime(time);
> 
> is due to the default nroff line length.

What is the default nroff line length?

And do we have any sort of Pod linter in core that will warn if our
preformatted sections are "too" wide, such that they'd render to badly
formatted man page?

Nicholas Clark
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