On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:25:28 +0000, John Colvin wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 13:36:38 UTC, ketmar wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:40:24 +0000, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: >> >>> I find it lacking if I have to tell a newbie "look in the >>> documentation for some other language for the definition of the >>> operators that you can't find here somewhere" >> >> newbie should read some textbook first. > > I think the language reference should be a comprehensive document that > doesn't technically require someone to know C(++) first to understand. > It doesn't necessarily have to be newbie friendly, but it should be > complete.
does this including IEEE floating point number description down to bits, for example? as it's essentialy the same thing: requirement to read external sources. i.e. it's good and all that, but where we should draw the line?
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