| yrlnry | dmhouse: i think it depends on that a lot less than you might expect. |
| SamB_XP | osfameron: would "perldoc perldoc" make it clear how to look up syntactical stuff? |
| dmhouse | Part of the way to improve your user experience is to learn how to not be a prick yourself. |
| action | ddarius wonders what helpful person he has replaced... |
| ddarius | wonders what helpful person he has replaced... |
| kc5tja | osfameron: Yeah, I just finished SICP, and I really wish I had this book when I was growing up. :) |
| mauke | SamB_XP: it contains "If you are looking for a table of contents to the Perl library modules documentation, see the perltoc page." |
| kc5tja | osfameron: I'll wait until next paycheck to purchase HSoE though. |
| dmhouse | yrlnry: well, I find that if you ask a reasonable question in a reasonable manner and respond reasonably to any advice offered, you'll get on with most people in most channels. |
| SamB_XP | yrlnry: well, I guess nobody has felt helpful lately |
| Binkley | the trick is figuring out what "reasonable" means :-) |
| SamB_XP | yrlnry: also most of the time people ask really stupid questions in ##c |
| osfameron | SamB_XP: er, don't think so. Feel free to send patches! (the -X one isn't yet on CPAN, I'm supposed to apply it and release, but I, er, couldn't find tuits) |
| SamB_XP | osfameron: I have plenty of square ones |
| dmhouse | yrlnry: "People are basically good." |
| kc5tja | dmhouse: I was kickbanned from #debian once for asking a question, and yes I've already RTFMed and stated so. How's that for getting on well? :) In fact, that's one reason why I stopped using Debian all-together. I just didn't want to be associated with that kind of crowd. |
| osfameron | SamB_XP: right now, your best bet is "perldoc perldoc", "perldoc perltoc" and then read lots of stuff, especially perlop and perlfunc, also perlsub... but yeah, until the indexing stuff gets off the ground, it can be a bit annoying to remember where to look for stuff |
| yrlnry | I once got kickbanned from #unix for asking what the name of the table is in the kernel that maps the file descriptor number to the file pointer. |
| hyrax42 | ?src Data.Map.unions |
| lambdabot | Source not found. My pet ferret can type better than you! |
| osfameron | kc5tja: it's worth it, I think. I still need to read SICP too... |
| Binkley | the table that can be named is not the true table |
| yrlnry | Oh, and for contracdicting someone when he informed me that I was trying to get them to do my homework for me. |
| SamB_XP | yrlnry: you'd think they'd be helpful enough to answer "file descriptor table"... |
| hyrax42 | :t M.unions |
| lambdabot | forall k a. (Ord k) => [M.Map k a] -> M.Map k a |
| integral | yrlnry: Those would be "FILE *"s? |
| hyrax42 | ?src M.unions |
| lambdabot | Source not found. Sorry about this, I know it's a bit silly. |
| kc5tja | yrlnry: Heheh -- that'd be the handle table. But that's pretty silly though. I hate it when people do things like that that take more energy to kickban you than to just answer the damn question. :) |
| SamB_XP | integral: ints |
| kc5tja | integral: Nope. FILE *s are c structures that reside in user-space. |
| integral | kc5tja: Yes, I know that. |
| hyrax42 | ?fptools Data.Map |
| lambdabot | http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/Data/Map.hs |
| action | monochrom bans integral for a mistake :) |
| monochrom | bans integral for a mistake :) |
| kc5tja | Within the FILE structure, there is an int which refers to the Unix file descriptor -- I think he was asking about that descriptor mapping. Hahaha |
| integral | I was just pointing out that you could misread yrlnry's line. |
| kc5tja | # /kickban integral n00b! ;D |