From: "Michael T. Richter" Date: 2008-05-07T22:17:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Posting Culture --=-EXHu7roYJ7lsLKw3TRp9 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-V3yPGCkdajfHI+YW+7Eg" --=-V3yPGCkdajfHI+YW+7Eg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:03 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I sometimes cannot figure out some elementary stuff because I do not > know the right method name for ri or overlook some not so obvious use > of a method. It doesn't help that ri is prone to random breakage and that you can't do any reasonable searches on ri-based documentation. Ri is great (when it's working at all) if you know the method/class/whatever you want and just need a refresher on parameters, etc. It's lousy as a learning tool. Kind of like UNIX man pages. --=20 Michael T. Richter (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Ernest Benn) --=-V3yPGCkdajfHI+YW+7Eg Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:03 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote:

I sometimes cannot figure out some elementary stuff=
 because I do not
know the right method name for ri or overlook some =
not so obvious use
of a method.

It doesn't help that ri is prone to random breakage and that you can't do a= ny reasonable searches on ri-based documentation. Ri is great (when i= t's working at all) if you know the method/class/whatever you want and just= need a refresher on parameters, etc. It's lousy as a learning tool.&= nbsp; Kind of like UNIX man pages.

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Michael T. Richter <ttmri= chter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists= or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Ernest = Benn)

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