Re: A Problem With GD

Uri Guttman wrote:

"MM" == Mark Manning <markem@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


MM> No. The conversation is not "which version of perl do you have" -
MM> it is "where is the most up-to-date version of the documentation".
MM> The most up-to-date version will be on-line. True, the
MM> documentation might refer to a different version of Perl but it
MM> would still be more current than whatever documentation I might
MM> have on my system.

where can you find the most up to date documentation for your brain?

the most recent docs on perl are NOT USEFUL for older perls. perl
doesn't change the docs separately from the source tree. the new docs
will cover changes, bug fixes, additions, etc that ARE NOT in your older
perl. it will NOT just be a 'better' or more useful set of docs. being
current is not the issue, being accurate it. very few doc changes go in
that are just pure doc edits as they have been reviewed and edited over
a long period of time by many (hundreds of thousands?) of
readers/users.

just trying to explain why your expectations of newer docs being better
for older perls is a way off target. you can continue to think you are
correct but you are wrong. changing your views about perl's docs and
perl's released code is the correct answer.

uri


No Uri. We are not talking about a particular version of Perl. The version stuff came from Abigail. I simply said that the most current version of the Perl documentation would be on-line long before you could get it in a release. I have further stated that it is not necessary to obtain a new release every single time you may encounter something that is different now than it was then.

However, to follow your logic: Even if the powers that be decided to put in a new function to Perl. (Let's call it CoinFlip.) You still do not have to download the new release of Perl just to be able to read up on CoinFlip. Further, as happens all of the time on the net, the new function would appear on several sites where they would be talking about CoinFlip, how it is used, called, what version it appeared in, and so forth. Thus, again, the net would have more up-to-date information than the documentation I have on my system. Whether or not my particular version of Perl is the latest or not.

So, I am afraid, you are stll wrong. The original question by Abigail was why did I first look on-line for the documentation about Perl that she had mentioned. My response was, and still is, because that is where the most current documentation would be located and if there had been a change that I was unaware of (which I was), then I wanted to read up on it and find out as much as I could about the change so that, as Abigail pointed out, I would not wind up making a program do things I didn't really want it to do.

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