Re^3: Wiki-Style syntax for posting

Considering that the HTML DTD specifically allows the close tag of the P element to be optional (on the account that the close tag can be inferred), I'm surprised the recommendation here is to use the close tag. That sounds very un-Perlish - and more Pythonesque.

Not that I ever do ;-) (Nor do I use close tags for LI)

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Re^4: Wiki-Style syntax for posting by jvector (Friar) on Oct 17, 2008 at 15:34 UTC
Surprised me too. I think I will turn down my error reporting level again ;-) Reminds me of the apocryphal stories about turning off 'use strict;' to make the errors go away ;-) This signature will be ready by Christmas	[reply]
Re^4: Wiki-Style syntax for posting by DStaal (Chaplain) on Nov 28, 2008 at 20:34 UTC
XHTML requires them, while HTML leaves them optional. Perlmonks seems to use transitional, in HTML mode. Which means it should be ok, in theory. That said, the interactions between them and a several of the other HTML tags that are allowed here can get fairly complex, and it is not always obvious — even with the spec — which way they are supposed to be resolved. Consider them something that use warnings; will complain about. ;)	[reply]