On 16 Aug 2006 at 11:15, Randy MacDonald said: > Surely you don't expect a dictionary to supply all legal sentences, do > you? > > I'm not one to speculate on what people don't say about their interactions > with J, so I don't know how you found the issue. > > I'm not of the "J doesn't do what I expect, therefore it has a bug" > school. When J does something I don't expect, it is more often my own > limited view of J that needs expanding. I'd consider myself excessively > arrogant if I felt otherwise.
Do you respond like this to all suggestions for documentation improvements? I've been programming for over 35 years, in a wide variety of languages (I lost count years ago). I have seen a similarly wide variety of language documentation. I am accustomed to being able to find things in the doc, if they are there. I am prepared to work at it, but do occasionally miss the glaringly obvious. I thought I had indeed seen an example of the construct I needed, so I asked (on the beta list, because that was where I was reporting the doc bug that I found while looking) whether it was there, or whether I was mistaken in believing it was there. Apparently the latter was the case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
