Marian Petrides wrote:
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.
I agree wholeheartedly. My point is that a user-to-user discussion forum is less likely to effect the requested change than a communication with those who have control over the product's design.
If someone has a question about arrays I'm happy to help. I learned about them by making a stack, trying things out, making a lot of mistakes, then tweaking my scripts until they did what I expected. In other words, I did what most programmers do to learn most things. Almost no one writes blue-ribbon code first time out.
Just the same, if I can help people have a gentler learning experience I'm happy to help. When learning a new tool, most programmers I know ask one question first: "Where's the list?"
If the aim is to help RunRev make better documentation, it may be useful to form a working group to draft recommendations.
If the aim is to solve an immediate problem, let's find out what the problem is and get that person an answer.
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