Do you respond like this to all suggestions for documentation
improvements?
No, I believe I respond to reasonable requests in a reasonable fashion. When
someone responds to a reasonable answer by saying "why wasn't it in the
documentation." I don't consider that reasonable. A character flaw on my
part, I guess.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Bone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] RE: [Jbeta] Possible link error in Dictionary
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.
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