In last couple of days, I saw at least three posts from the same Anonymous Monk about hashes. I can see that’s the same person, because all those has something to do with parsing a file containing data in a::= b format, and trying to load them into hash. Maybe more than three posts, but at least I noticed that many, and I don’t check all the posts.

The last post I saw was about how to delete from a hash (a little bit more complex, as each hash value is a ref to an array). It saw it around 11:30 p.m. last night, and I was thinking of answering it, but then I said to myself: wait a minute, is this the right way for the guy to learn? Why cannot he at least do some home work before asking? He cannot continue to do this, and this is very suicidal.

I am absolutely cool with questions, but it seems to me that there is some skill more important to learn, that is the skill to learn on oneself. By answering those questions, I am not actually helping, I am slowly killing the guy, mentally…

Now I want to hear from both newbies and experts about this, what do you think is the right way to handle this?

In reply to Is this the right way to learn? by pg

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