With this information, you can then go back to the Rev Transcript Dictionary and see that they do, in fact, tell you how to read from a file until a specific string (eg, tab) is found. BUT if you simply read the entry for "read from file" it's pretty easy to miss the information you need--especially if you are reading from the online (by which I mean built-in) dox.
And, if you try to get the information from the tutorials (unless I missed something), the information presented in the Advanced Study tutorial isn't really a tutorial (as in, "if I follow these steps, I will eventually end up with an employee database) but rather more like a partial dissection of the stack. Likewise (again, unless I am missing something) the how-to recipes don't include this either.
My point is that, at this juncture, a little more attention to putting forward simple step-by-step instructions for basic functions would go a long way in alleviating the frustration of beginners and even advanced beginner/intermediate users. And, for Rev, to progress to its rightful place, it needs not only to appeal to the niche of experienced professional developers but also to wannabees who may not yet have the patience to spend hours trying to figure out where the one kernel of information is located.
M
On Jul 7, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richard-
Wednesday, July 7, 2004, 8:23:43 AM, you wrote:
RG> A majority of the items reported here as MIA can be found with the
RG> Search Documentation tool using common terminology to describe them.
RG> Note that I didn't say "all", but cutting the number of unanswered
RG> questions by more than half in one move isn't bad.
Another good example is the use of arrays in rev. This is a topic which is quite confusing and looking in the documentation for the word "array" comes up with nothing. Running the search tool comes up with more, but there's no apparent link from the dictionary to the search tool, and no indication that the search tool might come up with more information.
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