Thanks, Damien for synposis 26 on pod. I am not sure where to suggest additional features, so let me try it here.

Suggestion #1:

It would be nice if I could designate some snippets to become both code and pod. For example, I may want to define a syntax for a parser in my perl program, 

my %syntax = {
   beginning  =>  qw( keywords ),
   center     =>  qw( code text musings music ),
   end        =>  qw( goodbye )
}

I would want my pod readers to see this to understand the syntax that my parser program allows. alas, this means that I have to maintain two versions: the one in the pod and the identical one in the code--and hope I don't forget to update both appropriately.

it would be great if we had a mechanism that would allow me to tell pod that the following code snippet should make it into the pod formatted output, too.

Suggestion #2:

A more ambitious (and probably to be rejected) suggestion would be to allow me to label a block, and insert it somewhere else. This way, I could define a section 

=head1 SUBROUTINES
=insertrefs allsubs

Now I can keep my subroutine documentation with the subroutines themselves (something like 

=labelfor allsubs
=head2 my function
...

the pod formatter would simply take all subroutine documentation and insert the snippets sequentially where the =insertref allsubs appeared.

of course, maybe I missed it and these two are already possible.

regards, /iaw

In reply to pod6 --- code+pod suggestion by iaw4

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