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Re: Why are the file test operators in perlfunc?

From:
Paul Johnson
Date:
October 31, 2008 05:47
Subject:
Re: Why are the file test operators in perlfunc?
Message ID:
20081031124607.GO20164@pjcj.net
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Abigail wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:44:15PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > David Nicol wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> > >> Would anyone be opposed to their docs being moved to perlop?

> I like the fact that the file operators are in perlfunc so they can be
> found by 'perldoc -f'.

IIRC, and after all this time I might not, they were originally in perlop and
were moved to perlfunc for this very reason.

-- 
Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net
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