I know where you're coming from but I want broken products to look broken. Not pretend otherwise. A message about bad Pod is a fairly good indicator, however minor, that the software author doesn't care about writing good software or keeping it maintained once it's out in the wild. So it's ultimately beneficial, if confusing to new comers, behavior for users. STDERR is fine but I'm tired of hackers who fill the error logs with a hundred lines a second because no one ever sees them. They mainly seem to find the behavior defensible because it's invisible and users are not savvy enough to see where it manifests in lost data, broken redirects, missing includes, etc. (Sidebar: I'm coming off a bit heavy but I truly appreciate Perl's forgiveness and flexibility in this regard.)

In reply to Re^3: POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below by Your Mother
in thread POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below by Anonymous Monk

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