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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:07:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fwsif1ss.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D05815A-48F6-43E8-8A9D-5415972D032F@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:50:29 -0500")

On Wed 19 Jan 2011 20:50, Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> In short, don't document how to work around a bug, if you can just fix
> the bug. :-)

Very much agreed.  Writing documentation is hard enough without having
to document bugs in addition to features :)

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13 21:58 Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Mark Harig
2011-01-15 20:48 ` Neil Jerram
2011-01-16 19:38   ` Mark Harig
2011-01-19 19:50     ` Ken Raeburn
2011-01-20  2:31       ` Mark Harig
2011-01-24 21:07       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-01-16 23:23   ` Mark Harig
2011-01-24 21:54     ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-25  7:05       ` Mark Harig
2011-03-04  9:35         ` Andy Wingo
     [not found]           ` <8CDA8E5BB95D253-584-D4A3@webmail-m087.sysops.aol.com>
2011-03-05 19:29             ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-24 21:06 ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-24 23:05   ` Mark Harig

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