On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 07:23:03 AM J Luis wrote:
> I know Tim, but honestly I don't feel knowledge'd enough to submit a doc
> improvement for a function that half an hour ago I could not even know how
> to make it work.

But now you do! It's a fair exchange: get help on the mailing list, then 
submit the changes that would prevent future users from having the same 
problem you had. Lots of us do that all the time; if more people did that, 
julia's rough edges would be smoothed that much more quickly.

--Tim

> 
> Joaquim
> 
> terça-feira, 17 de Novembro de 2015 às 15:16:52 UTC, Tim Holy escreveu:
> > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 07:03:05 AM J Luis wrote:
> > > Yes, it works thanks. But man we are not supposed to be wizards when
> > > reading the docs.
> > 
> > Submit a doc fix?
> > 
> > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#improving-d
> > ocumentation
> > 
> > --Tim
> > 
> > > terça-feira, 17 de Novembro de 2015 às 14:36:39 UTC, [email protected]
> > > 
> > > escreveu:
> > > > julia> find_library(["libgmt.dylib"],["/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib"])
> > > > 
> > > > should do the trick. The docs at least imply that both arguments
> > 
> > should be
> > 
> > > > vectors -- for one because of the plural and locations is supposed to
> > 
> > be a
> > 
> > > > list.
> > > > 
> > > > Am Dienstag, 17. November 2015 15:24:38 UTC+1 schrieb J Luis:
> > > >> The doc
> > > >> <
> > 
> > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/libdl/?highlight=libdl#L
> > 
> > > >> ibdl.find_library>
> > > >> 
> > > >> julia> find_library("libgmt.dylib","/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib")
> > > >> ERROR: MethodError: `find_library` has no method matching
> > > >> find_library(::ASCIIString, ::ASCIIString)
> > > >> you may have intended to import Base.find_library
> > > >> 
> > > >>  in find_library at deprecated.jl:32
> > > >> 
> > > >> julia>
> > 
> > Libdl.find_library("libgmt.dylib","/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib")
> > 
> > > >> ERROR: MethodError: `find_library` has no method matching
> > > >> find_library(::ASCIIString, ::ASCIIString)
> > > >> you may have intended to import Base.find_library
> > > >> 
> > > >> julia> Base.find_library("libgmt.dylib","/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib")
> > > >> ERROR: MethodError: `find_library` has no method matching
> > > >> find_library(::ASCIIString, ::ASCIIString)
> > > >> you may have intended to import Base.find_library
> > > >> 
> > > >>  in find_library at deprecated.jl:32
> > > >> 
> > > >> julia> Libdl.find_library(libgmt.dylib,"/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib")
> > > >> ERROR: UndefVarError: libgmt not defined
> > > >> 
> > > >> (but it is there)
> > > >> 
> > > >> Thanks

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