From: jstern@... (Josh Stern)
Date: 2000-12-28T01:10:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8123] Re: Code examples in the pickaxe book [long]

Dave Thomas  <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:

>A couple of people have mentioned here that they're having problems
>because they're typing in code from the book, and some of the code
>fragments aren't self contained.

I think that within the book you should should refer to a web
address for getting the source code.  At the web address, there 
should be sections for each book chapter (and maybe sub-section)
that try to present the code in the order presented, as accurately 
as possible.  Then there can be other sections that include more 
complete/real world final and worked examples.  Comments
in the fragments could contain links to the more complete
examples.

Also it would be great if there were a complete reference to
the C API somewhere on the web and the book referred to that.

Apologies in advance if I didn't fully comprehend the question,

-= Josh