DO you really think that would be in the documentation?
Read 'perlhist':
How do you know this? I would never have thought to come up with the 8 letters - "perlhist". I just look on the Perl Bookshelf from O'Reilly, but I couldn't find any reference to the birthdate.
I think that's remained one of my biggest frustrations -- people ask a question on the list, and someone will reply saying, in effect, "Hey, dumb dumb, the answer is right there in perldoc perlre!" How in the world is a beginner supposed to know that? So in this case, how should I have gone about looking for that magical 8 letters above?
If that's one of my biggest frustrations, I'd say I'm doing pretty well. Isn't perl great? =)
I agree that the docs are not as intuitive as they could be. The key, from my experience, is to browse/skim through all of it and get familiar with where things are. Then when you need something specific you can go back for it. For browsing the docs, start with
perldoc perl # starts with a brief table of pods perldoc perltoc # detailed table of contents
It's sometimes also usefull to grep through the perl documentation, though 99% of the time I can generally find I can go to what I'm looking for within 1 or 2 tries because of famiarity.
For a more visual browsing experience, you can try <http://www.perldoc.org/>
Regards, Randy.
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