Re: perldoc -f qw (and others)

[email protected] ("Flavio Poletti") Fri, 19 May 2006 00:25:20 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups perl.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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>>   * 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,
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> I think it's fine. It's not a function, it's an operator.
>

Then this should go out of the "scope" of perldoc -f.

Either it should remain in, so it would be better to give immediate help
without hunting, or it should go out because it's an operator and not a
function. The hybrid way seems confusing to me.

Just my 2c,

   Flavio.