Re: Proposed patch to perlvar.pod
[email protected] ("A. Sinan Unur")
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Chas. Owens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:15, A. Sinan Unur <[email protected]> wrote: > snip >> 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 >> $#ary may still check perlvar.pod without thinking about looking at a >> section titled "Names that are no longer special". > snip > > My hope is that the new user will be using perldoc -v "$#" (which > happily works with the new section) or will search the document for > $#. The new section is just for organization's sake. OK. As I said, I had assumed my patch would have been ignored after seeing the activity on the thread you started. I noticed that Rafael actually reverted the patch almost 2 hours ago so I am late to the party as usual. Sinan -- A. Sinan Unur http://www.unur.com/sinan/