At 10:23 PM 6/11/01 +0200, Evgeny Goldin (aka Genie) wrote:
>Cool, although I didn't have to read FAQ ( prefer to find the answers
>by myself ;) it's still a good idea to read it occasionally.
>
>Are you planning to get the contents of http://www.perlfaq.com too ?
Unlikely. As I mentioned in the last message, I've been pretty lazy about
it. Ripping apart the new FAQ into a format that seemed like a good idea
to me 6 years ago is a higher priority, or perhaps instead I should change
the code so that it randomly pulls out a pair from the installed version of
perl so that I could save myself the trouble every few years. (Having a
current perl installed isn't extra effort because I always have that anyway.)
I've never seen perlfaq.com before. I've clicked a couple of links and am
getting error messages about errors processing various directives. I can't
actually seem to find any actual questions and answers. Who writes
that? One implication of the page is that the questions and answers are
user entered. If that is true, I'd want to pretty carefully examine the
content for quality. I think one of the biggest values in the Perl FAQ is
that it is so extraordinarily well-written and precise. Many of the web
collections I've seen in the past contain a lot of mistakes and
misinformation and I would feel bad about including something like that
unknowingly.
Cheers,
Jeff
