I guess my problem is that I can't see the value in providing someone with five answers, of which one may be correct. And giving that someone the responsibility of finding that out.

How does that help Perl and its community? Perl is percieved to be hard, and hard to find good information. Sorry, but I don't see any value in providing someone with false information. And I find Perlmonks to be in a very sorry state that instead of trying to improve matters, people try to justify it.

It reflects poorly to Perl and the community, in exactly the same way as it would reflect poorly to Amtrak if an inquiry about depart times was answered in five different ways.

I don't see a significant difference in the result.

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In reply to Re^6: To help not to misguide by Perl Mouse
in thread To help not to misguide by c_chipster

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