Re: Broken shortcut links for some built-in functions

It just shows that conflating "perldoc %s" with "perldoc -f %s" in "[doc://%s]" and depend on some magic list to separate the function names from the module names is a bad idea, in my opinion.

For example: is [doc://open] short for open or for open? Both pages exist.

This should have been two separate link types from the start.

But: the damage is done. For backward compatibility the behavior of [doc://] will have to remain as is. Perhaps we could add 2, not 1, new link type? I propose "docf" (or "func") for functions, and "docm" for modules ([mod://] is taken and links to search.cpan.org)

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Re^2: Broken shortcut links for some built-in functions by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 07, 2011 at 13:48 UTC
Pragmas are modules. `[mod://open]` ⇒ open. That doesn't link to perldoc.perl.org, but at least it works. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply] [d/l]