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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:47:12 -0700
To: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
From: Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>
Subject: Re: Summarizing the prompt issue
Cc: Per Einar Ellefsen <per.einar@skynet.be>, docs-dev@perl.apache.org
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At 02:34 AM 06/16/02 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
>1. people don't read convention pages.

Yep I always skip those sections in books.

>2. if you happen to have a single line
>
>  # make install
>
>some will think of it as a comment. And that's the only reason why I 
>suggest some prefix. Otherwise % and # are perfect with me.

I guess no matter how hard you try someone will get confused.  Then if not
user% then % and root#.  That seems rather explicit.  I just think if you
are going to use letters that they should mean something to the person
reading it, and not be just place holders.

I suspect you, Stas, have probably the most experience regarding this with
questions you have received due to the guide.


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Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org

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