in reply to Is this the right way to learn?

The only dumb question is the one not asked.

I don't care how many times a person asks a question. Sometimes a person gets so fuddled over something that the obvious is not always so obvious. Never mind the fact each person learns in their own fashion.

Also, as it was said breathing fire on somebody does not exactly make them want to stay which in itself is wrong and goes against what the place is supposed to do for people.

Finally, it may seem those posts are a waste of time. But they could help somebody else who wanders along and does a search. When I was starting out I did find some answers to some very basic stuff. Of course they had many RTFM, RTFD, RTFF replies.

We shouldn't be concerned with helping the "freeloaders." They do get weeded out eventually.

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Re: Re: Is this the right way to learn?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2003 at 08:55 UTC
    The only dumb question is the one not asked.
    True, but only the first time. People often struggle with perl data structures and related syntaxt. Now asking for help on how to get to "bill" in 
    $a = [
   {
     a => {
         b => 'bill',
     },
   },
];

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    is fine once. But seeing that person come the next day and ask how to get to "bill" in 
    $a = [
   {
     a => [
            {
               b => 'bill',
            },
     ],
   },
];

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    is simply not cool. At some point you have to read perldata, perllol ... and learn the syntaxt yourself. Reading is a fundamental way of learning, and if you refuse to read, why should people help you? (you're gonna read their replies anyway, so you might as well read the manual instead, it's where the replies come from)
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