It's a discussion forum that accepts help-desk questions among other forms of dialogue. One should expect upon asking a question that the question, numerous possible answers, and sometimes self-help advice for the inquirer will be handed out, debated, and commented upon, rehashed, and archived for later searches.
Homework questions should be labeled as such so the person asking can be helped with research and analytical skills needed to finish the work independently. This is true for people learning the language itself even if the homework is self-assigned.
For someone asking for introduction to concepts or implementations of a concept that already exist, multiple options will probably be proposed. That only one is needed is not the point of the site. That there are options to discuss for the benefit of both the current seeker and future seekers is.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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