I can't tell much about implementation or API, cause it's very complicated.

You might want to discuss this on P5P.

Otherwise ... in order to have deeper insight and better feedback here, could you please provide a list of hands on examples of what you see and what you want?

> Even if it's too low priority to fix code, maybe stream-lining documentation would be not too much work

Well I think you are always welcome to provide patches to perldoc.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^3: (Some) inconsistencies with IO built-ins, their documentation and filehandle names ("symbolic references") by LanX
in thread (Some) inconsistencies with IO built-ins, their documentation and filehandle names ("symbolic references") by vr

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