From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T05:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods

On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:50:18 AM, Jim wrote:


> Dave Thomas said:
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2004, at 23:00, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>>> But there's one problem as I see it at the moment: attributes don't
>>> appear in the method pane.  This sometimes incurs difficulties: try to
>>> find a method (you don't know what class) in a large body of
>>> documentation, only to discover it's an attribute.
>>
>> Do you mean the list at the top? That's a good point. I could probably
>> work them in there. Should they be intermingled, or listed separately?

> Intermingled ... on the theory that if you are looking up a method in the
> list, you would like to check one place rather than many.

Yes.  Just to be precise, I was referring to the method _frame_ (I
wrote "pane").

One day I imagine there'll be a webapp for searching bodies of RDoc
information :)

Gavin