Re: Proposed patch to perlvar.pod

[email protected] ("Chas. Owens")
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:15, A. Sinan Unur <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On the other hand, I do see some value in there being a simple one
> line entry for $# as new programmers trying to find documentation for
> $#ary may still check perlvar.pod without thinking about looking at a
> section titled "Names that are no longer special".
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My hope is that the new user will be using perldoc -v "$#" (which
happily works with the new section) or will search the document for
$#.  The new section is just for organization's sake.

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