I expect that this was an intentional omission. Casey feels that PerlMonks is not a good resource for newbies who want to ask questions which are answered in the documentation.

This is from a p5p thread on his proposal for a mailing list for Perl newbies:
thoughts and proposal for perl-newbies@perl.org
the message discussing PerlMonks

He may be right about that.

On the other hand, there's more to helping newbies than just quoting the documentation to them. Perl Monks regularly help newbies with interesting questions; the ones that aren't answered in the documentation.

In reply to Re: Perl Monks good for Beginners? by chipmunk
in thread Perl Monks good for Beginners? by substr

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