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From:
David Golden
Date:
July 20, 2011 06:40
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] [DOCS] Modernize perlopentut.pod
Message ID:
CAOeq1c99JrDLx3sE+4ZH+NhA6xye6_QWxn9nZ+pAA3CncY5jSw@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
> And we help (beginners or otherwise) even less by pretending B doesn't
> exists, or (worse) that it's something evil.

Absolutely, but in a tutorial, it should be fine to show B briefly (so
they know it exists) and point them to other reference documentation
for more information if they need it.

> Don't forget we all dealt well with 2-arg open for a decade and a half
> without our servers being hijacked by every script that opened a file.

Touché.

-- David

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