On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:18, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote:
Failure to add a use 5.010; or use 5.012; limits the features that can
be used in examples. For instance, this example won't work even under
5.12 as it is
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 08:57, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote:
It isn't just that say wasn't added until 5.10, it is that say doesn't
even work without a use 5.010; or similar statement. This means
that the person
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 13:56, Horsley, Tom tom.hors...@ccur.com wrote:
Good luck with this. I'll just mention one thing that has bothered me since
the documentation got all improved when moving from perl4 to perl5:
The perl4 doc was all one giant man page, which made it really simple
to
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote:
Failure to add a use 5.010; or use 5.012; limits the features that can
be used in examples. For instance, this example won't work even under
5.12 as it is written:
say foo;
It is possible that we should only add use
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
Interestingly I would have said that the documentation is mostly needed
by novices or by people who rarely use Perl. The difference might be
On 10-07-02 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
I don't know much about experts but I think we should make it easy for
people with no,
or little background in Perl to get simple answers to their questions
with pointers to
further details. I think the vast majority of people using Perl are in
this
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 17:33, brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com wrote:
In article
aanlktimm-hiuf86ev9ykytsvpucpj1le7hatxbxnq...@mail.gmail.com, Chas.
Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote:
No, you understood me, it is just that the FAQ doesn't do a good job
for those two questions. That is
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 17:18, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote:
I am excited to announce the formation of the Perl 5 Documentation
Team. Our goal is to have the best, most current, and easiest to use
and understand documentation of any programming language. Why settle
for small goals?
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 16:40, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote:
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* Updating the documentation so that all examples longer than one
line contain a `use` statement indicating the minimum version of
Perl 5 required to run the example
I'm afraid that I don't think this is a
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 17:29, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote:
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* Extensive review and Modernization of all examples
One thing I'd like to suggest. I think it'd improve our code examples
a lot if we used a consistent style for them. By that I mostly mean
not coding style
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