From: Ian on 22 Jan 2007 04:18 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 22 Jan 2007 07:30 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 -- {$_=pack'B8'x25,unpack'A8'x32,$a^=sub{pop^pop}->(map substr (($a||=join'',map--$|x$_,(unpack'w',unpack'u','G^<R<Y]*YB=' ..'KYU;*EVH[.FHF2W+#"\Z*5TI/ER<Z`S(G.DZZ9OX0Z')=~/./g)x2,$_, 256),7,249);s/[^\w,]/ /g;$ \=/^J/?$/:"\r";print,redo}#JAPH,
From: J�rgen Exner on 22 Jan 2007 07:56 [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 22 Jan 2007 08:00 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 22 Jan 2007 11:14
"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??? sherm-- -- Web Hosting by West Virginians, for West Virginians: http://wv-www.net Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net |