On 03/05/2017 12:41 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 03/05/2017 01:48 PM, David Christensen wrote:On 03/05/2017 07:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:I'm interested in "expr" and "bc". The man pages lack reasonable examples. The tutorial/HOWTO pages confuse the issue with fancy page layouts and/or code samples showing how impressive the author can make the script's output. Suggestions please.https://www.perl.org/Browsing the site I found some unintended humor - "The behavior of binary arithmetic operators depends on whether they're used on numbers or strings." http://learn.perl.org/faq/perlfaq4.html
That's not unintended humor, that's a bug in the documentation. It should say:
"The behavior of bitwise operators depends on whether they're
used on numbers or strings."
I've filed a bug report -- thanks for the tip.
More seriously, the site demonstrates to convey useful information to different audiences. I suspect I'm going get even less sleep ;> Thank you.
YW. If you're interested in Perl 5, "Learning Perl" is the canonical introductory text:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920049517.do David