On 2005-05-06, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:17, Andrew - Supernews wrote: >> On 2005-05-05, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> furthermore, writing the views has often required >> delving into details of the backend implementation that are not well >> documented. (See a recent discussion here on typmods for an example.) > > This argument at least is a red herring. The answer to a lack of > documentation about a widget is never to build more widgets that hide the > original widget and require more documentation, the answer is to better > document the orginal widget.
I disagree. If you have a bad interface, the fix is to provide a better one, not aggravate the problem by encouraging even more use of the bad interface. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
