On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Lyle wrote: > You know I looked at use POSIX qw[strftime], but didn't find the perldoc > that helpful:- > http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html
It basically says "see your system's strftime() documentation". Admittedly it could be more helpful - if, say, it were to include the relevant sections of the strftime manpage verbatim - but doing that portably is Really Hard: consider that the manpage contains a lot of extra C-specific stuff that wouldn't be needed, and there's no fixed format for manpages from one platform to another. POSIX.pm is part of the perl core and maintained by the perl5-porters. I've found them to be very welcoming of documentation patches in the past. > Which raises another question, should perldoc get a comments section > like mysql and others? After all, the easier you make it for people to > contribute, the more contributions you get. http://www.annocpan.org/ -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without adult supervision." -- Russ Holsclaw in a.f.c _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
