From: Ian on

Brian McCauley wrote:

> But there is (almost) an exact mention in the FAQ.

I gather "it's courtesy to provide a link"... that would have avoided
confusion over what was meant by "the FAQ"

8;o)

From: Michele Dondi on
On 22 Jan 2007 01:18:27 -0800, "Ian" <ianaturner(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> But there is (almost) an exact mention in the FAQ.
>
>I gather "it's courtesy to provide a link"... that would have avoided
>confusion over what was meant by "the FAQ"

If people write "the FAQ" it is implicitly clear that there's and
official FAQ to be referred to in those terms. There's no real need to
provide a link since it comes with Perl's core documentation and
should thus be available on your own system. Just do:

perldoc perlfaq

You can also search individual faq entries like thus:

perldoc -q 'some reasonable keyword'

Admittedly, it's not always 100% how to choose reasonable keywords,
but most of the time you mandage to do so.

Indeed, the FAQ, just like the rest of Perl's documentation, is *also*
available from the web:

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-faq.html

IMHO you there's no real advantage reading that rather than the one
that ships with your installation, but for some reason you may prefer
it...


HTH,
Michele
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From: J�rgen Exner on
[see subject]

Ian wrote:
> [long rant snipped]
> NONE of
> you actually came up with the answer, did you?).

Do you want us to READ the answer in the FAQ to you?

> (And don't bother with your "clever" replies, I won't be coming back
> to read them)

Is that a promise?

jue


From: J�rgen Exner on
Ian wrote:
> Brian McCauley wrote:
>
>> But there is (almost) an exact mention in the FAQ.
>
> I gather "it's courtesy to provide a link"... that would have avoided
> confusion over what was meant by "the FAQ"

How can there be any confusion? As I mentioned before you have been given
the _EXACT_ title of the relevant FAQ entry.
Is is too much to ask you to run "perldoc -q <keyword>" for any of the key
words in the title yourself? Or do you really believe that people should
quote the answer of the FAQ every time someone is asking for it?

jue


From: Sherm Pendley on
"Ian" <ianaturner(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Brian McCauley wrote:
>
>> But there is (almost) an exact mention in the FAQ.
>
> I gather "it's courtesy to provide a link"... that would have avoided
> confusion over what was meant by "the FAQ"

Confusion? *What* confusion? What did you think he might have been talking
about, the C++ FAQ???

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