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[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:52:12 EDT
mike ledoux said:

>On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:01:01AM -0400, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I think it's more that they're lazy.  Why type $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH
>> when you can type $| instead?  If someone who doesn't know the 
>> language needs to know what $| does, it's well documented.
>
>I see this sort of claim fairly frequently from the Perl crowd, usually
>accompanied by 'everything you need to know is in perldoc'.  Yet every
>time I need to figure out what one of these obscure no-letter variables
>does, perldoc falls down:
>
>	mwl at voyager:~>perldoc '$|'
>	No documentation found for "$|".

That's because you're not using perldoc correctly.

Do perldoc perldoc for proper usage, for the magic vars use 
'perldoc perlvar'.  A complete list of the "perldocs" is available 
using 'perldoc perl'.

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Paul
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