Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:27:42 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.documentation
Message-ID <23741.1291436862@chthon>
>On Friday 03 December 2010 at 16:53, Leon Timmermans wrote:

>> We do, honestly. I'm tired of having to explain to newbies why the
>> official perl documentation is not strict friendly, when I tell them
>> they should use strict. **I don't know how to explain that to them**,
>> it simply doesn't compute.

>You've had the "But I copied and pasted it directly from the documentation, 
>and now my program doesn't work anymore!" discussion too?

If they are using strict, it will immediately show itself.

If they are not, there is absolutely no hope for them.

--tom