Perl5 Docs (was Re: Roll Call)

On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 11:07  AM, Richard Nuttall wrote:
> I presonally use a combination of documentation for programming, and 
> find the Perl documentation more difficult to use than many.

That's an interesting observation -- I'd love to hear more thoughts on 
that.  Is it simply that, as you said further down, they are not 
adequately cross-sliced, or are there other problems?  Do you think the 
current documentation is one of the reasons many people find Perl so 
opaque, or is it simply the nature of the language?

> Perl6 needs documentation that slices a number of ways, since the 
> syntax and structures are much richer and need much more explanation, 
> specially to newbies. This is again where an online, web-based 
> resource will work well.

MikeL