Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>On Friday 03 December 2010 at 16:53, Leon Timmermans wrote: >> We do, honestly. I'm tired of having to explain to newbies why the >> official perl documentation is not strict friendly, when I tell them >> they should use strict. **I don't know how to explain that to them**, >> it simply doesn't c

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote: >>> We need to make it use strict friendly. >> >> No, we do not. =C2=A0Vide fricking supra. >We do, honestly. I'm tired of having to explain to newbies why the >official perl documentation is not strict friendly, when I tell them >they shou

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote: >> We need to make it use strict friendly. > > No, we do not.  Vide fricking supra. We do, honestly. I'm tired of having to explain to newbies why the official perl documentation is not strict friendly, when I tell them they should use stric

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2010-12-03 13:49, Shlomi Fish wrote: after I posted my series of patches to perlipc.pod , I saw that tchrist posted his version, which got accepted immediately. As a downside to that, I'll have to restart my work. However, I noticed that perlipc.pod still has many perceived issues. Here is a

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Abigail
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2010 19:30:14 David Golden wrote: > > Let me say to all in the thread so far that my general reaction to the > > original list was "hmm. seems fairly reasonable". > > > > However, I think that if we take the emot

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
> after I posted my series of patches to perlipc.pod , I saw that > tchrist posted his version, which got accepted immediately. As a > downside to that, I'll have to restart my work. However, I noticed > that perlipc.pod still has many perceived issues. Having real issues is quite distinct from h

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Abigail
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:43:30PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2010 15:25:14 demerphq wrote: > > On 3 December 2010 13:49, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > after I posted my series of patches to perlipc.pod , I saw that tchrist > > > posted his version, which got

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>They are still important, because the people who are trying to help the Perl >beginners, are often presented with badly written code, and having code like >that in the core Perl documentation only amplifies the problem, and makes us >look bad. That is *not* badly written code. --tom

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread demerphq
On 3 December 2010 14:43, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2010 15:25:14 demerphq wrote: >> On 3 December 2010 13:49, Shlomi Fish wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > after I posted my series of patches to perlipc.pod , I saw that tchrist >> > posted his version, which got accepted immediately

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-03 Thread demerphq
On 3 December 2010 13:49, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > after I posted my series of patches to perlipc.pod , I saw that tchrist posted > his version, which got accepted immediately. As a downside to that, I'll have > to restart my work. However, I noticed that perlipc.pod still has many > perce