Like you, when the OP asked about organising the Q&As, I thought about CQ&A. However, as I indicated, I've never found it that useful because it contains so few posts. For example, I spent about a quarter of an hour at one point looking through it for anything on spreadsheets, but without success. I'm too new to Perl to have met the cookbook, so I can't sensibly comment on it.

I agree with you totally about deep trees. Looking at the ActiveState presentation of the Perl docs on my machine, I think the tree of the docs reaches a maximum depth of 4, and that only rarely. I certainly would have no conceptual problem with a limit on the depth, although as soon as you set a limit, soneone wil find a good reason to exceed it!

I also agree with planetscape - on two counts. One is that if no-one else is doing it, the person who wants a change should be prepared to put some work in. The second is that doing the whole thing would be a huge amount of work. It would also be beyond my abilities even if I had the time. So my proposal was made in the hope of breaking it down into manageable jobs, one of which I have the knowledge to do. PM has saved me a lot of time, and I don't yet have the knowledge to give unto others as has been given unto me, except in a few narrow areas.

I suspect that our ideas on this aren't too different. BTW, I recently finished reading "At War with Waugh", Bill Deedes's book about his coverage of the Abyssinian conflict. Since you picked up my literary gauntlet, it's a book you might enjoy. Of course, you might have read it already...

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re^4: Anyone doing anything about questions/answers at PM? by davies
in thread Anyone doing anything about questions/answers at PM? by johnnywang

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