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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
May 23, 2017 16:50
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.26.0-RC1 is now available!
Message ID:
20170523165029.GP417@iabyn.com
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> writes:
> 
> > I've now done my own review of  perldelta up to and including the
> > Diagnostics section.
> >
> > One thing which bamboozled me: I wanted to add this entry to changed
> > diagnostics:
> >
> >     =item *
> >
> >     L<Odd name/value argument for subroutine '%s'
> >     |perldiag/Odd name/value argument for subroutine '%s'>
> >
> >     This warning now includes the name of the offending subroutine.
> >
> > but of course that doesn't work because of the "/". Try as might with
> > things like E<sol>, I couldn't get porting/podcheck.t to be happy.
> > Anyone know the correct voodoo?
> 
> The successful incantation seems to be:
> 
>     L<Odd nameE<sol>value argument for subroutine '%s'
>     |perldiag/"Odd nameE<sol>value argument for subroutine '%s'">
> 
> i.e. E<sol> on both sides of the |, and quotes around the section name.
> That renders correctly for me and passes podcheck.t

Ah thanks.

-- 
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

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