Richard

My immediate thought was the same as yours. But I was readily able to reproduce Mark's observation. From the roadmap, just go to Transcript Dictionary. There is a search box at the top. Enter "array." What do you get? Nada, nil, nichts, nothing.

The point being that the cognoscenti know to use the Search Documentation tool, but a rank beginner would not.

I think Mark's point was that it is not inherently obvious that using Search Documentation will give you a lot more hits than searching the dictionary.

M


On Jul 7, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

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
> RG> them. Note that I didn't say "all", but cutting the number of
> RG> unanswered 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.


How did you look for that?

> 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.

Except to try it.

In the Search Documentation tool there are 69 hits for "array", and 19 for "arrays".

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