RE: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/rtfm php_rtfm.h rtfm.c

At 06:35 PM 4/25/2001 +0200, Peter Petermann wrote:

Is this extension supposed to be a demo extension of some sort? It certainly doesn't seem to be a good candidate for a C extension.

I agree. What's the point of polluting the extension space? In german IRC (and other) there are newbies who ask real stupid questions, we handle this by telling them to RTFM, but now there seems to be a new type of newbie... those newbies try to use rtfm(); with this extension they are able to do that, and others dont need to explain rtfm all the time :)

I think it's condescending and not very good spirit. Why not have an alias read on IRC which sends them the URL to the manual so that you can reply quickly and painlessly when they ask a stupid question? Some people just have a harder time than others. (And yes, some are lazy but it's still not a reason to pollute the PHP source tree). Andi