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

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Zeev Suraski 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. I don't really agree with that. PHP manual is the first place people come to for PHP language questions. Why not provide code samples and tutorials as part of the manual instead of making them search through some other site? -Andrei Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. -Author unknown