Oddly enough ;), if you picked up Programming Perl, this is explained in the back{...}

You've got to give princepawn credit. He's gone from immediately assuming it's a bug in Perl to asking questions that can be answered with RTFM. This is progress!

Now if he'd just learn to RTFM some more, he could get off the Worst Nodes page more often.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker