On Thu, 03 May 2012 01:34:12 -0700, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> wrote:
I strongly agree, but this is not Respec's fault. It's just a particular(ly bad) editorial style adopted by some people. There is nothing in Respec that prevents an editor from defining the algorithms properly and then linking to them (as is done in HTML and DOM4).

Doesn't Respec encourage the style of

  member
    Member description.

    Parameters
      Parameter description.

    Return value
      Return value description.

    Exception 1
      Exception 1 description.
    Exception 2
      Exception 2 description.

whereas what you really want is

The member(Parameters) method must run these steps:

  1. ...

  2. ... throw Exception 2 ...

  ...

This is why I tell people to use http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Anolis instead.


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Anne van Kesteren
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