| hobbs | Caelum: right, so if I'm looking at a method that takes a FooBar I can click that, then click on its superclasses or interfaces if necessary to find out exactly what annoying java jiggery-pokery I have to do |
| Randal | mrpengu1n "perldoc perlfunc" has a category listing at the beginning |
| mrpengu1n | wouldnt it make more sense to sort functions by category rather than alphabetic name |
| kd_ | jagerman: I mean that there are newer markups that deal more elegantly with x(ht?)ml transformation |
| Randal | nope alphabetic rules and the categories are in the front |
| kd_ | which remain human readable |
| mrpengu1n | it takes like a minute to find anything |
| action | Randal repeats |
| Randal | repeats perldoc -f SOMEFUNC goes right to it stop your BITCHING until you know how to use perldoc sheesh |
| Caelum | mrpengu1n: also learn to use the / key in your pager :) |
| hobbs | besides, less has a search function |
| jagerman | That's it? If it only took me a minute to deal with all the crap in java's documentation, I'd be happy. |
| Randal | you remind me of scrottie now :) |
| hobbs | you should be glad to be blessed with the wonder of less instead of having to use more! |
| kd_ | perldoc -T | grep 'something' |
| mrpengu1n | wow this api is horrible ok |
| Randal | again- dissing perl here will win you NO points if you can't stop that, please leave. |
| mrpengu1n | what function can I use for finding where a regular expression starts? |
| torbjorn | perldoc perlvar |
| Randal | perldoc perlvar see @- |
| kd_ | hobbs: irc.perl.org was getting too quiet in my timezone |
| Randal | or was it @+ |
| hobbs | kd_: haha. I can see that, I guess |
| pitty | Randal: are you the Randal, "From learning perl" ? |
| mrpengu1n | what is perldoc perlvar gonna do |
| Eriol | hello. :) |
| hobbs | kd_: this channel is relatively all-hours. |
| Randal | yes |
| hobbs | mrpengu1n: have a lot of words, which you should read. |
| mrpengu1n | waste of time what function does the job? |
| kd_ | Randal: why aren't you merlyn any more? |