From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 05:59:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16779 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 05:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA16763 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 05:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA21422 for freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:59:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id OAA13169; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:55:36 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:55:36 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order References: <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Feb 9, 1997 12:44:21 +0100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I like the tcl way: A "intro" like page under the name of tcl and > man pages for the rest of the stuff grouped (mostly) logically. Hmm, so who's going to volunteer the `p' manual section then? :-) > Of course the problem for perl would be to describe the syntax in > only a few pages... Not really. The syntax description is the smaller part of the Perl man page. The description of the various functions is much fatter. (If you're going to argue that Perl doesn't have a syntax at all, i'll counter-argue that Tcl isn't a language at all, but rather an extensible interpreter, something like FORTH. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)