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It was Thursday, April 24, 2003 when Tim Peoples took the soap box, saying: : On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:48:47PM -0400, Casey West wrote: : > : > This ticket is all about the ambiguity with the -X "thingies". : > Everyone knows them as operators, yet they're documented in : > L<perlfunc> (and that documentation calls them /operators/). : > : > So if they are operators, the documentation should be moved to : > L<perlop>. : > : > If functions, terminoligy must be updated in the documentation. : > : > Which is it? : > : > Casey West : > : : : Yes but... if they're moved to L<perlop> then we won't be able to : type "perldoc -f -X" (which I'm rather fond of doing in a pinch). While I agree with you whole-heartedly, it's not a very good reason to keep the documentation in L<perlfunc>. That is, unless it's really supposed to /be/ in L<perlfunc>. :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Unix You shoot yourself in the footThread Previous | Thread Next