Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b

Well, it's still a reference manual, despite a few exceptions in the features page (even though most of it is still reference-style). Anyway, whatever you call it, it's not the ultimate book of wisdom. Tutorials don't belong there. Zeev At 01:52 20/08/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

De-facto, the manual has always been treated as a reference manual, and not a user's guide. I don't see tutorials being a part of it ever; Many people have written good tutorials, and we never thought about importing them into the manual, which is good. Would you expect to see tutorials in UNIX man pages? Neither would I. There is nothing De-facto about it. The manual is not just a reference. It never was. None of this is reference: http://www.php.net/manual/features.php And it is most definitely a useful part of the manual. We need more of the same. -Rasmus

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