I do have a hunch that some newbies flail with any sort of search facility because they tend to use the wrong words for the concepts they have trouble with.
Yes, indeed. I've been taking note lately of nodes
with questions that basically boil down to control
flow (with a view toward possibly hunting down or
creating some kind of control-flow tutorial to
point future ones to), and take a look at the ones
I've got on my list so far:
Now, the title "making loop in perl script" does
clearly have to do with control flow. "The third
'if'" might. The others obviously don't -- yet
that was the poster's problem. Further, the title
that most obviously has to do with control flow,
'making loop in perl script', corresponds to the
node of which I am *least* sure that the real
problem is control flow. My conclusion is that
if the posters understood control flow well enough
to know it was the source of their problems, they'd
be able to figure out their own problems and solutions
without posting their questions at all. The reason
they were stymied is because they didn't understand
what their problem was.
I suspect that control flow is not the only concept
of which this is true. For example, I once reported
a 'bug'
in bugzilla that I thought was related to
the handling of CSS as applied to anchor tags, but
my problem turned out to have to do with the inline
box model as it applied to the parent element. Not
being familiar enough with the spec to understand
the inline box model, I didn't realise where my
problem was.
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