Re: perldoc -f qw (and others)

[email protected] (brian d foy) Thu, 18 May 2006 16:07:24 -0500
Newsgroups perl.documentation
Message-ID <180520061607248530%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> 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.