Hello everyone!
The thing I have come aware of is to get the most out of answers to your question, it is vital that you will have a starting point where to look for further information. By answering a node we guide the questioner in the right direction (hopefully). When we provide links to other nodes that
  • already cover the specific issue somehow or
  • that will help explain what has just been said
    • the questioner will gain a lot more experience since he will get used to PM, man pages perldoc etc much sooner, because we show that such a thing is out there. it will also help the faint at heart that will be scared off by a use this! statement.

    So link it baby! :-)

    So long
    C-Keen

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    Re: Improving the 'value' of a node by using links
    by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Oct 02, 2001 at 05:13 UTC
      Yes, I agree. It's much quicker to link to an explanation than to re-create it. And aren't we all about code re-use? And linking to a whole thread is always going to be better than writing a single answer - gives lots of different sides of the subject.

      But I think one is sometimes inhibited about just posting a link - it seems like not enough effort to earn the all-important XP.

      Well I'm here to tell ya, I'm going to vote ++ for any node that contains a useful link, even if it has nothing else in it, and I encourage fellow monks to do likewise. But I do mean useful...

      § George Sherston
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