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To expand on Tye's comment, you could of course still write in a more traditional Perl documentation style:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; =begin pod =head1 A few good subs This is a line of Pod. This module contains some functions and might be used as follows: do_something(); # Magic happens here! =end pod # ------------------ # Subroutines # ------------------ =begin pod =head2 do_something You'd use this I<awesome> function for: =item When you want to do foo. =item When you want to do bar, since foo obviously isn't cutting it. =end pod sub do_something { print "Magic goes here.\n"; } print "hi.\n"; do_something; print "bye!\n";
...if you preferred.

I'd argue that this version is also much cleaner and less intrusive than Texinfo or HTML (or even classic POD). Whether it's better than the version I showed earlier is, I suspect, a matter of personal preference. Some people will prefer the clarity of explicit tags, others will prefer the elegance of implicit contextual cues.

The point being, of course, that Pod is part of Perl 6, and hence TMTOWTDI.

Damian


In reply to Re^3: Perl6 Pod -- reinventing the wheel? (=para) by TheDamian
in thread Perl6 Pod -- reinventing the wheel? by j3

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