Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 23:13 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: >> >> Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > David, you remember my suggestion to generate that "General Code >> > Reference" with an Index ... ? >> >> Yes, that may have helped. But it may also have delivered a haystack. >> >> I think we probably need a "good programming" corpus, but the snippets >> are supposed to be that. Navigating them still is too hard. > > If you think of the "Snippets Manual" or the LSR, then I doubt they > are best suited to what I think we need. > Their snippets are too much targeted at delivering ready to use tools > for actual typesetting work. > > As an example: > music-map has the problem that you can't really stop it recursing > deeper. One reason why you wrote map-some-music and for-some-music. > Alas, I always need to get to their doc-strings again, to understand > the differences and which one to use for which case.
Like in Scheme, map returns something, for doesn't. I think that early designs had more arguments, requiring even more doc-string lookup to get them right. -- David Kastrup
