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Postings from April 2003
It was Thursday, April 24, 2003 when Andy Lester took the soap box, saying: : > So if you feel this way then there should be an entry in L<perlop> : > that says "there are really functiony operators, look in L<perlfunc>"? : > (I don't mind this idea either.) : : Either that, or combine them. : : Imagine I'm a user and I see this "tr" thing. I'll probably look in : perlfunc, right? It's not, of course. I suspected you were speaking at a higher level than just -X "thingies". I've personally been bitten by the "tr is probably in perlfunc, so I'll just 'perldoc -f tr'" thing before. But I'd try to solve this problem with a "-o" option to perldoc. perldoc -o tr perldoc -o -X Casey West -- There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy AlmesThread Previous | Thread Next