Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: First impressions of new perl user (code, questions, ...) Message-ID: <126612@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 28 Mar 91 03:17:42 GMT References: <126310@uunet.UU.NET> <1495@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 38 In article <1495@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush) writes: ?In article <126310@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: ?>In article mayer@sono.uucp (Ronald &) writes: ?>?A random idea (not really a request; just something I was thinking about): ?>? ?>?In the unpack function do "A" and "a" mean the same thing? ?> ?>Obviously not. Because there are no synonyms. ?>?If not, are the differences documented (not in my man page). ? ?But the man page *does* document the difference (and a very useful ?difference it is, too! ? ?>To be honest, I couldn't quote you the exact differences, ?>chapter and verse. I also said that I don't care, and that when I do I'll look it up. ?From the man page: Please be careful who you're quoting. You made me look bad, a task I don't need any help at. Since I'm here, I might as well talk perl. And man pages seem to be a topic mentioned here, so... How about a separate man page for each perl operator? We could put them in section 9. Then we could say: RTFM: man 9 split, man 9 join, man 9 from-outer-space :-) Oh yeah. I would also like to see the flow control commands stuffed in there too. Put `if' between `hex' and `index'. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane