No, perldoc only "tells you everything" if you already know perl 5. You do, so you don't see this.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:15 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 9/26/18 7:08 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > English is not a programming language, so it will not help you with > > understanding what Positional is. Or Callable. Or Mix, or any of the > > other types and roles in Perl 6. Perl 5 has none of these, so it is > > never a problem in Perl 5. Instead you have to memorize a bunch of weird > > special case rules for the things Perl 5 does know about -- and perldoc > > expects you to have done so. You don't notice because you've already > > memorized them. > > Not an excuse for poor explanations. Perdocs leaves you knowing > how to "use" the functions. Perl 6's does not, unless you > already know how to use it, then your don't need it. > > So rather than grumbling about it, I am going to start > trying to be part of the solution, rather than just > grumble about the problem. > > This is my latest: > > A booboo and an rfe in contains documentation > https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues/2334 > > Thank you for all the help with this. > > -T > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
