Hi
using <pre> tags are considered a sin within the monastery, but I wanna suggest to use them when citing from perldocs and similar sources.
When displayed in a terminalš the docs already have a hard linebreak only some characters longer than <code> has, always inserting "+" breakes for these <10 chars IMHO doesn't worth it.
Please compare the readability of
using <code>
The auto-increment operator has a little extra builtin magic t +o it. ... "undef" is always treated as numeric, and in particular is chan +ged to 0 before incrementing (so that a post-increment of an undef value + will return 0 rather than "undef").
using <pre>
The auto-increment operator has a little extra builtin magic to it.
...
"undef" is always treated as numeric, and in particular is changed to 0
before incrementing (so that a post-increment of an undef value will
return 0 rather than "undef").
if someone is concerend about font-size you might add additional <tt>
using <pre><tt>
The auto-increment operator has a little extra builtin magic to it.
...
"undef" is always treated as numeric, and in particular is changed to 0
before incrementing (so that a post-increment of an undef value will
return 0 rather than "undef").
Another possibility could be to augment the chars/line number in <code> to allow easy citing of perldocs.
Cheers Rolf
1) hmm depends on the terminal-with but perldoc seem to have a min-width of 80 chars.
UPDATE: Hmm ... the line-width of perldocs seems to be a convention, it depends on the author if he wraps after 80 chars.
The synopsis of Scalar::Util is an example for bad formatting.