From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2010-05-07T20:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ri on sqlite

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've thought of it many times, but would never personally undertake
> such a project.
>
> In addition to hoped-for speed, the motivating factor for me would be
> deeper documentation knowledge.
>
> For instance, if you do 'ri String' now, you are told about all String
> methods from any library you have installed, as if they were all
> available all the time.  You're not told what you have to "require" to
> get access to the various methods.
>
> ri's knowledge is static and shallow; the potential exists for it to
> be dynamic and deep.  Or something.

maybe because the docs are just mined from the source.  doc making
should be a community effort (just imagine translating it to different
langs).. maybe something like a collaborative wiki/git, wherein
downloading and updating is allowed using just the command line, eg

ring fetch/pull...
ring string.upcase  (i like fastri's case insensitivity and hash/dot mxing)
ring string.upcase --remote  (get doc from remote git hub)

ring here meaning ri nxt gen

best regards -botp