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* Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> [2011-07-20 14:25]: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:03:54PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote: > > Indeed there is a case for two separate tutorials: > > > > A. How to open a file. > > > > B. How to use Perl's magic 'open' to do interesting > > things with redirections and shell pipelines, > > provided you understand that it's not in general safe > > to use string interpolation with a user-provided > > filename. > > > > We do not help beginners by giving them (B) purporting to be > > (A). > > Indeed. > > And we help (beginners or otherwise) even less by pretending > B doesn't exists, or (worse) that it's something evil. I think everyone agrees on that. I didn’t see anyone pushing for the opposite – Mike asked “do we even want B?” but was open to convincing. Everyone else with a firm opinion that the document needs to change has been arguing only that A should be in the document sooner than B, not that B should be removed completely. Hopefully “in a tutorial we should show them A first, and only then B” is something you can agree with? Or do you see a strong argument against that? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next