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* Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> [2013-02-16T20:30:02] > SUMMARY: Let's rename perlopentut and write a new one from scratch. > [...] > Nearly every one of those is non-simple. That is not a tutorial, and it is > not just about open. It is more like "FMTEYEWTK About open() and I/O in > Perl". If the goal is to create a document that teaches people how to use > open() for the simple cases, then there is no hope for perlopentut. It > cannot be turned into that, because that is not what it is. You have to > start over. I think this is a really good suggestion. There is already some amount of work that was being done on a rewrite, which I have not yet seen. I haven't read the included sketch carefully yet, either. I just wanted to say that I think this kind of simplification is a good idea. I also like the idea of building a new more comprehensive open document. I imagine that quite a bit of the open docs from perlfunc could be moved to that, actually. Alexander, what do you think about Tom's short document? (I will read it myself tomorrow. I need to get some sleep soon!) -- rjbsThread Previous