From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T02:34:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25287] Re: Documentation strategy - was: Re:  Re: class SharedQueueThread feedback

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com> writes:
> > > Dave, any reason these didn't make the pickaxe book (assuming they didn't
> > > make it - I couldn't find it, but I can be dense :) ).
> >
> > A 600 page limit :)
> >
> So what is the strategy for 1.8.x?  Do we queue outside AWL demanding an
> 800 page limit for the next version of the book {if any} :-), or do we
> get the 1.4 HTML manual and beat it into shape, or add it to RubyGarden
> and all chip in, or...
> 

I was hoping that we would make Ruby 1.8 of such elegance that 600 pages
would suffice.
But maybe I'm just foolishly optimistic.