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Craig A. Berry
Date:
September 1, 2009 06:19
Subject:
Re: Is updating "Ancient Perl" examples in documentation a good idea?
Message ID:
FA442803-56AD-4BC4-8A90-02BC8CA2E8F9@mac.com

On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:20 PM, demerphq wrote:

> 2009/8/28 brian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com>:
>> In article
>> <aeba50980908270831q17c8da1crcf073f71039c6f3f@mail.gmail.com>, Flavio
>> Poletti <polettix@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, in perldiag I found the following example:
>>>
>>>     open(OUT,">$ARGV[0]") or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]: $!";
>>
>>> I think that, were this example written today, it would be more  
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>     open my $out, '>', $ARGV[0] or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]:  
>>> $!";
>>
>> I've been doing this for the perlfaq when I run across things.
>>
>> If we need a documentation  pumpking to pay attention to these  
>> sorts of
>> things, apply the doc patches, and so on so other people can work on
>> the other favorite parts, I herby volunteer :)
>
> FWIW, I think this is a good idea, and I second your motion, and would
> be happy to vote in favour of granting you a commit bit for this
> purpose.

And numerous other of the right people have discussed this and agreed,  
so consider it done.  I'll write you off-list with details, brian.   
Thanks for volunteering.

________________________________________
Craig A. Berry
mailto:craigberry@mac.com

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