Personally, I don't want to link to the FM, unless the FM is one that doesn't come with Perl. Otherwise, people can learn to RTFM on their system like everyone else. The FM is distributed with Perl for a reason, as well as perldoc, and man. Just my opinion, of course, but I see linking to something like perlop more harmful than good. What if the user is running Perl 4, or 5.003, and the linked docs are for 5.6? IMO, people should learn to use perldoc -f, and perldoc -q instead of expecting people to always point them to a web page.

Cheers,
KM

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: Diversity by KM
in thread Diversity by jjhorner

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