From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:07:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8CD818429F4EFE0-D0C-28BFF@Webmail-m115.sysops.aol.com> <87d3nxgaf9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <8CD83CC14D7A7E0-1624-1AA70@webmail-m056.sysops.aol.com> <3D05815A-48F6-43E8-8A9D-5415972D032F@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295903702 22295 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 21:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 24 22:14:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTkR-0007cd-4c for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:14:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhTkQ-00031w-JD for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43371 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhTYx-0004uB-Pn for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTYv-0005qq-EV for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:34855 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTYv-0005qm-8W for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF1939BB; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:03:46 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=h2DU9tNgmSyTitmIZdX9dNx3Akg=; b=lxbhdT 7bz48wPUKtf7YufGpNX2kJsCfRx1kTqx5Xz0FsQVdZGfKQWgwvTC/pfluuxmJXyI 0Y+jmVvFKoQuQIx2dWA8v0iBVK02YYrKs6jb6wqvDPfnHprT2EhvGCr7405sMSBU 7Z0uGzo4R+qXFnl4yL2WIRK78vY06VxiDZ1fI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=BRCwLfblNi3NdOZ4fiFaG0+zpj0pT0I0 R8X+MwWkRu52F4yCEtWejRMtXF8DIIHE1H8qdLjvpuM+RTwgse04jLuBJDBLFlPr FnhGP4u3wL8ol7ZYR2VHqSeZL7SXBYYIhk4tN411x2rRCBBQxUUwVFfMsn06KRb9 IL1UGWaarEY= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117E139BA; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:03:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3541139B8; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:03:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <3D05815A-48F6-43E8-8A9D-5415972D032F@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:50:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6D9D01F6-27FD-11E0-B360-BC4EF3E828EC-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5019 Archived-At: On Wed 19 Jan 2011 20:50, Ken Raeburn 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/