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Re: Reordering perlvar
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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
September 26, 2011 09:52
Subject:
Re: Reordering perlvar
Message ID:
29026.1317055897@chthon
>Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> writes:
>>> The biggest change is I made a new "interpreter state variables" section
>>> that's near the end of the document. I put stuff like $COMPILING and
>>> ${^ENCODING} here. My theory is that this is wizards-only stuff, so
>>> keeping it separate makes the document more usable.
>>
>> I rather don't like that you lose alphabetical ordering if you do that.
>> Someone sees a builtin variable used in a Perl program and they want to
>> look it up in the list of Perl variables. Why should they have to know
>> which list to look in?
>This is what your favourite documentation viewer's search function is
>for. Also, perldoc -v <variable> (since perl 5.12, or if you've
>upgraded Pod::Perldoc in the last three years).
In that case, why don't we just randomize everything? Certainly
perlfunc could use some useful randomizing in the same way.
--tom
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