Re^2: Solicitation For Ideas: Tutorial On Precedence

dragonchild,
We have Tutorials for many things that are already explained in the documentation from using pack/unpack to command line arguments. The point is that not all people immediately understand this information and they need it presented to them in a different way. Perhaps I am thinking more of a beginner's guide to precedence. It seems that for a lot of people who's first language is Perl - they come to expect the Do What I Mean (DWIM) approach. I often get WTF comments in #perl when I am explaining an answer by stating that "...binds more tightly than...".

Or perhaps - I am just misjudging the need.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Solicitation For Ideas: Tutorial On Precedence by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 15, 2005 at 14:52 UTC
I'm not dismissing the need for such a tutorial, but I suspect new users would be better served by a tutorial on how Perl code is chunked with a section on operator precedence. That way, you can include things like Creating a list of hashrefs using map{} Why doesn't `print (3+5)/3;` DWIM? Why do some people do things like `my $x = $hash_of_stuff{+shift}`? The real topic is a larger one than the one you're looking at. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Solicitation For Ideas: Tutorial On Precedence by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 15, 2005 at 14:55 UTC
dragonchild, The real topic is a larger one than the one you're looking at. Fair enough. Hopefully this thread gets enough input for me to write such a tutorial or motivates someone else to. Cheers - L~R	[reply]