From @jidanni

S> We're an equal opportunity project; we do not discriminate against
S> trailing whitespace.

Come to think of it, whitespace is a misnomer, a relic of offices with
white paper. As I type, "whitespace" is indeed black on one screen,
red on another, grey on another, etc.
$ man perlre|grep -c white
12
Worse is whitelisting/blacklisting etc. Or maybe let's just accept
it. [OK perldudes, close this bug that I hereby opened.]

@petdance - Status changed from 'new' to 'rejected'

From @iabyn

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03​:59​:48AM -0000, Dan Jacobson wrote​:

S> We're an equal opportunity project; we do not discriminate against
S> trailing whitespace.

Come to think of it, whitespace is a misnomer, a relic of offices with
white paper. As I type, "whitespace" is indeed black on one screen,
red on another, grey on another, etc.
$ man perlre|grep -c white
12
Worse is whitelisting/blacklisting etc. Or maybe let's just accept
it. [OK perldudes, close this bug that I hereby opened.]

Okay, I'm going to be rude here.

Perl is developed by volunteers in their own free time. No one is being
paid to respond to Perl bug reports. Since you have now filed this bug
report, someone has got to go to the bug interface and formally close
the bug. This is time that could be better spent fixing bugs. The time
taken for me to reply to you is also time not spent fixing bugs.

Or to put it another way, perlbug is not your personal playground.

Please can you refrain from using the bug reporting system unless it's
for real bugs, or real documentation issues. If reporting a documentation
issue, please keep in mind whether a particular man page is a reference
guide or a tutorial guide. The former is supposed to be reasonably concise,
and we do not in general want to expand them with endless examples, unless
the example is necessary to clarify an ambiguity. It is generally accepted
that the documentation is already too long as it is.

If you want a good source for learning Perl, go and buy the Llama or
Camel books.

Dave.

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Nothing ventured, nothing lost.