Re: [PATCH] Add Hyperlinks, Add vim/gvim and add FAQ about negated regexps

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<[email protected]>, Shlomi
Fish <[email protected]> wrote:

> I started to revamp the FAQ. My original intention was to add some
> questions from http://perl.net.au/wiki/Freenode_Sharp_Perl_FAQ , and
> other things the Freenode #perl people have encountered.

You added a bunch of L<> markup, but in my hazy memory I think we were
trying to avoid those for some reason. Did you try a bunch of different
formatters with it? Was any of the output weird? Maybe Pod::Simple
fixed whatever used to be odd about it.

The hash merging question is a good one, but I'll rewrite the answer
for it. Thanks for the suggestion :)

> http://perl.net.au/wiki/Freenode_Sharp_Perl_FAQ#How_can_I_match_anything-excep
> t-a-regex_inside_a_Perl_regular_expression.3F

I don't understand the intent of this question. Is this something
people really ask? It seems that the answer should just use !~ (like it
finally mentions). What problem is this trying to solve? 

> That put aside, why was the comment about parsing XML and/or HTML
> disappear? 

What comment? Which question? I don't recall the particular edit, but
everything should be in the commit logs.


> We keep being bothered by people who try to process HTML
> and/or XML using regexes on Freenode's #perl, and it should be in the
> FAQ:

The answer would be "Use a module". Maybe the question should be "How
do I do X in Perl", although the answer would be really short. :)