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• What to do next (Score:1)

  by dagolden (6584)

  Well, that's a heck of a tricky failure.

  As the culprit (as it were), I would suggest the following:

  • Pod::HTML -- needs to do something smarter with things it doesn't understand. Report that as a bug.
  • Module::Build -- probably shouldn't let HTML errors be fatal. Report that as a bug.
  • Your Pod doesn't render well on search.cpan.org either -- you should probably try a different construct anyway, e.g.:

  =item 0
  
  This is item 0
  
  =item 1
  
  This is item 1

  And so on.

  Use the pod2html preview [cpan.org] to see how it l
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by jonasbn (1153)

    Hmmm, the POD does not even render as expected viewing perldoc.
    
    
            These are the different values:
    
            =over 4
    
            =item * 0
    
            Game is over
    
            =item * 1
    
            full card (the default)
    
    
    Renders to:
    
            These are the different values:
    
            o Game is over
    
            o 1
    
           
    • Re:What to do next (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2008.06.04 5:57 (#63166) Homepage Journal

      Looks like someone is testing the string following the bullet with something like if ( $headline ) as opposed to if ( defined $headline and length $headline ). Check what happens if you say =item * Z<>0.

      (In 5.12, the need for the defined will go away because length undef will silently return undef rather than warning and returning 0.)

      But I agree with David that you should not put a bullet and headline on the =item line.

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