On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:43:06PM -0000, Steve Peters via RT wrote: > > $ perldoc -f x > > No documentation for perl function `x' found > > $ perldoc -f = > > No documentation for perl function `=' found > > > > Sure, the latter pair are a whole different class of operators perhaps > > etc. etc. However, to mediocre me, they are just more perl "things", > > and I hope that for any perl thing, perldoc -f should cough up some > > tip about where to read more. > > > > $ perldoc -h > perldoc [options] PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName... > perldoc [options] -f BuiltinFunction > perldoc [options] -q FAQRegex > > As you mentioned, x and = are operators, not functions, and therefore > not returned by perldoc -f. This is not a bug.
Perlbug is not just for bugs. Perhaps -f should be extended to operators. Drawing a line between operators and functions at -f is not particularly useful to the user. >From a practical standpoint, because of the way perlop is layed out it is difficult to automatically extract per-operator documentation. It would need to be proken up more like perlfunc with each operator an =item. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ You're more radiant than a memory of breathtaking ecstasy.
