It is with some reluctance that I ever consider posting this node with the suggestion of additional work for the mighty who run this site, but nevertheless ...

In replying to a node recently, I wanted to add a reference to the our function, however found that (almost?) all the Perl manual documentation in the form of perlfunc:, perlman: and alike are from 5.005. With this in mind, I resorted to simply referencing perldoc -f our in the reply node.

However, given the wide-spread usage of 5.6.x versions of Perl, is it prehaps time for the Site Documentation Clan to look at updating some of the documentation nodes? Or even better, creating a host of nodes with perldelta and like for the 5.6.x tree parallel to the existing nodes? Alternatively, could all these documentation changes be summarised into a single node within tutorials prehaps?

Comments, suggestions and criticisms are welcomed.

 

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