On Dec 5, 2003, at 6:58 AM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: [..]
[..]may get in the way of someone looking for a distilled IJustWantTheDamnAnswer listing ;-).
Let's review the bidding a bit so far. A brief review of the last 45 days will get you to Jason's original Kvetch about not quite getting 'perldoc' - hence the desire to 'just ask a question'. As such Casey has implemented a solution for the
just ask_the_perl_bot ...
As some are starting to notice, there are those minor technical distinctions between 'syntax' and 'semantics' - that while it is reasonably easy to build a device that can parse out syntactical tokens and 're-use them' the issue of dealing with 'meanings', and with the implications of those 'meanings' get a bit messy.
We just had one question today, where a part of the answer really was NOT about how to do the DBI foo, but about stepping back and getting a better feel for how 'basic perl' really works SO that the OP could step back into original set of Issues about DBI.
So there is always going to be a bunch of problems associated with 'the meaning of meaningful' and when has one 'over stepped' 'the simple answer' trying to get at a 'root cause problem'. All writers face the risk of losing their audience. It's a bug in the basic 'semantical engine' - but for some reason primates keep avoiding fixing that!!!
ciao drieux
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