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2024-12-27Add Pod readerEvan Silberman
Pod ("Plain old documentation") is a markup languaged used principally to document Perl modules and programs. Since it was originally meant to be translated pretty directly to man, the semantics are fairly simple. This Pod reader was developed with reference to the canonical user and implementer documentation of Pod: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod and https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpodspec. There are 1490 .pod, .pl, and .pm in the Perl 5.34 distribution found in /System/Library/Perl on my mac. Of those, this reader dies with a parse error on 7 of them. All of them seem to be cases where pod commands are found within a non-colon-prefixed =begin/=end. perlpodspec says I may treat this as an error. [API change] adds readPod