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

Peter, This extension is odd, very odd, and very unreasonable to put in a language. With all due respect, I don't think that the oddities of some IRC channel should affect it. There may be people there who are totally different from the ones I know, but I really don't think that an rtfm() function makes any sense whatsoever, when it does nothing but point you to a simple URL. Explaining someone to call rtfm() with the topic as the argument has got to be more difficult than pointing him to php.net/topic. If you really with to make him use PHP to get this done, write an alias that echoes the following to the channel: print "Click <a href=\"php.net/$topic\">here</a>, dummy"; If he's not bright enough to get it, perhaps he should quit while he still can. Zeev At 16:21 26/4/2001, Peter Petermann wrote:

That's kind of ridiculous. Either you should explain to your newbies what RTFM stands for, or have an on-join message in the channel that directs them to the manual. Adding an extension or even a function for the benefaction of such people borders on egregious, in my opinion. 1) it really sucks to explain something 20 times a day 2) on join messages are impolite 3) we have chan rules in our topic which tell to do so, but newbies, thats fact, dont read that. Peter "[DiSAStA]" Petermann

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