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From:
A. Sinan Unur
Date:
June 16, 2010 02:20
Subject:
Re: Proposed patch to perlvar.pod
Message ID:
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:15, A. Sinan Unur <nanis@cpan.org> wrote:
> snip
>> On the other hand, I do see some value in there being a simple one
>> line entry for $# as new programmers trying to find documentation for
>> $#ary may still check perlvar.pod without thinking about looking at a
>> section titled "Names that are no longer special".
> snip
>
> My hope is that the new user will be using perldoc -v "$#" (which
> happily works with the new section) or will search the document for
> $#.  The new section is just for organization's sake.

OK. As I said, I had assumed my patch would have been ignored after
seeing the activity on the thread you started. I noticed that Rafael
actually reverted the patch almost 2 hours ago so I am late to the
party as usual.

Sinan

-- 
A. Sinan Unur
http://www.unur.com/sinan/

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