The documents in the Library are all looking a little dated. I believe that they date from Perl version 5.005 or thereabouts.

Obviously keeping them up to date with the latest versions of the Perl documentation is not a trivial task so I'd like to make a suggestion.

Don't do it.

The perldoc.com has been around for a while now and seems to do a great job of keeping an up to date version of the Perl docs on the web. I think it would make more sense to point people at that site for up to date Perl docs so that the people working on this site can concentrate on building features that aren't available elsewhere.

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In reply to Keeping the Library up to date by davorg

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