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RE: man perlvar != perlman:perlvar ?

by mdillon (Priest)
on Oct 26, 2000 at 03:01 UTC ( [id://38522]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to man perlvar != perlman:perlvar ?

you are correct that the problem is version skew. if i recall, the suggestion has come up before of labelling the perlman:* pages with a version number. i thought it was a good idea then, and continue to believe so now.

update: just for the record, i agree with merlyn (infra) that it is not time to update the Perl Monks perlman pages from 5.005x yet. i was suggesting only a label.

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RE: RE: man perlvar != perlman:perlvar ?
by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 26, 2000 at 03:13 UTC
    Well, a label is fine. But the online docs are in fact the most recent stable version of Perl, so it wouldn't make sense to update them until 5.6.1 comes out.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      It varies from doc to doc, but try tie and you will see that, like Camel 2, many of them are actually 5.003 specific.

      There was a thread once where someone was massively bit by this because perldiag mentioned nothing about a warning involving "our"...

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