On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:02:24 -0400 Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com>
wrote:

> At Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:09:52 -0400 Enlightenment users discussion &
> support       <enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> The main problem with documentation-by-example is what happens when
> there isn't an example that covers the question at hand? Or (worse)
> when the example's name or title does not fully suggest or explain
> what it is an example of. Also, sometimes it is critical when looking
> at examples that there is some explaination of the concepts involved.
> Examples alone can never really explain how to do things, if the
> *underlying* concepts are not either known or else explained. For
> example, what does 'swallow' mean in the context of edje? The code in
> e_menu is using this, but I have no clue as to what is going on and
> the swallow example does not really *explain* what is going on, it
> just shows you how to use it, without explaining why you would do it
> or what its purpose is. Somehow, I don't think it has anything to do
> with eating or birds (but maybe it does?).

We need an example of swallow involving rasters cat eating a bird.

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