in reply to Don't just provide a module name

What is the line to be drawn? I've gotten newsgroup responses to me posting the URL of a FAQ or a module's documentation like "couldn't you just paste it here?" No, I couldn't. It's a waste of time and bandwidth. You'll learn something if you learn how to access CPAN, and the Perl docs, and everything else the Perl community has to offer. Personally, I'll show a small example, or say something brief, like "use CGI.pm, it's the standard Perl query parsing module" or "the FAQ shows how to remove duplicates from an array", etc.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: Re: Don't just provide a module name
by buckaduck (Chaplain) on May 01, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
    Although a nice compromise here on PerlMonks is to include some kind of link:

    "Use the CGI module when writing CGI scripts"

    That way, you're not tying up bandwidth, but you're providing a more helpful pointer. It's not always so trivial in a chatroom or a newsgroup, but you could at least indicate that they can search for CGI at http://search.cpan.org.

    buckaduck

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