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From:
Michiel Beijen
Date:
November 15, 2021 20:39
Subject:
Re: Pre-RFC: markdown in pod
Message ID:
CABD0r13shU6AaF2--WERRYUTVWct44Z5XGjcqAco20C1h0dz3Q@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 4:43 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:45:15 +0100
> Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote:
>
> > I think we should fix POD instead. There are two big problems with it:
> > the lack of images and the lack of tables. Both are fixable. I will
> > probably submit pre-RFCs soon.
>
> Please do :) Tables and images would be a great addition IMHO.
>

I  would like to point out that you're not the first one to try get this
done, there is much prior art.
See for instance https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18169

It would be great if POD gets this feature though! (or tables)

Also I would like to take the opportunity to mention that Markdown is more
or less a Perl success story as the first implementation was Markdown.pl,
written by John Gruber.
And the argument of '40 years of POD history' -- that is great & true, but
there are a _lot_ more people today who write Markdown than there have ever
been writing POD.
Markdown _is_ kind of sucky in that it's not standardized and CommonMark
misses tables though!!
--
Michiel

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