From:	brian d foy	Date:	Thu May 18 15:07:24 2006
Subject:	Re: perldoc -f qw (and others)

In article <62829.210.15.216.58.1147955757.squirrel@64.34.200.215>,
<simon@unisolve.com.au> wrote:

>   perldoc -f qw
> 
>    qw/STRING/
>      Generalized quotes.  See "Regexp Quote-Like Operators" in
>      perlop.
> 
> is a little on the brutal side! (And the same is true for qx(), qq(), etc).
> 
> My thinking is this:
> 
>   * The user has to work out how to find the
>     "Regexp Quote-Like Operators" section in perlop, and

>   1. What do you think about this?

I think it's not much work to look in perlop.

>   2. If you agree that "perldoc -f qw" should return some
>      actual content about the qw function,

I think it's fine. It's not a function, it's an operator.