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> I'd like to remove all of these documents. > I think it was this line which got me all excited, although I realise now you were only talking about the first three. Apologies for any misunderstanding on my part. I think your basic premise, of a solid restructuring of the docs., is a valid one and would be beneficial, in particular to newcomers but also to the rest of us. Of course, that's a big can of worms wriggling about in the pod dir/ and no doubt some chinese gentleman once said: "even a one thousand mile journey begins with a single step" :-) Ciao Richard -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen! http://www.rfi.net/books.html > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Richard Foley wrote: > >> perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl > >> perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl > >> perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial > >> perlbot - Bag o' Object Tricks (the BOT) > >> perlobj - Perl objects > > > > Definitely confusing. A rewrite is a good idea, although I'm not sure > > replacing all 5 documents with a single one is the right way to go. > > Taking the regex docs as a starting point might be an idea. > > > > perloo - starting point + quick + reference to other docs. > > perlootut - tutorial > > perlooref - reference > > perloosa - smart arse + clever tricks > > I was not proposing to replace all of them. At a minimum, I think we need > a tutorial and a reference. The existing perlobj document is already a > reference, and I'd like to simply revise it, rather than replacing it. > > > -dave > > /*============================================================ > http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org > Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) > ============================================================*/Thread Previous | Thread Next