If I really want to do something like this, I do it the other way around, and create my data (not code) from POD:

my %stuff = map { /^=item * (\w+) => (.*)/ ? $1 => $2 : die "Malformed
+ line: $_" }
            grep /^=item */,
            split /\r?\n/, <<'=cut';

=over 4

=item * foo => ...

=item * bar => ...

=item * baz => ...

=back

=cut

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Usually I find that approach to be a bit too much magic, but at least for the definition of configuration file entries, I found it helpfull as it forces me to write the documentation for every possible option together with its introduction into the program.

In reply to Re: POD from code? by Corion
in thread POD from code? by dgaramond2

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