The vestigial <'s and >'s are ugly and confusing. They make it appear that you omitted a pod formatting code

Aside from delimiting a url in text, how else would you distinguish the beginning and end of a url in text-only console?

How would you tell these apart without delimiters? 

Visit L<http://example.com/hi?there>.
Visit L<http://example.com/hi?there.>
Visit L<http://example.com/hi?there:>+buddy
Visit L<http://example.com/hi?there:+buddy>

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Perhaps with something like B<...> or C<...> do in a text-only environment. Certainly not with something that was indistinguishable from a missing or invalid format code.
It hasn't gone unnoticed :) Though I don't immediately see it in

https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Search/Simple.html?q=pod%3A%3Ahtml/https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Search/Simple.html?q=pod2html

I've seen this bug reported before, and rejected as not-a-bug, as per http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpodspec.html#About-L%3C...%3E-Codes

I'm interested in the conflict between current documentation and current behavior. As far as I can tell, I'm following current documentation, which is in conflict with current behavior, as other responders have observed.

In reply to Re^2: hyperlinks in pod by jpl
in thread hyperlinks in pod by jpl

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