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by gizzlon 5014 days ago
Agreed.. I like that they often have examples to get you started quickly, but a lot is simply left out. Especially the quirks, and php has a lot of them.

I'm used to dealing with perl 5, which has quirks of it's own, but at least their documented (a little too much sometimes). I learn a lot about many things by reading the perl docs.

Here's "Gory details of parsing quoted constructs" (no that I have read it..)

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Gory-details-of-parsing-...