Rick McGuire wrote:
> There's a section in the ooRexx Reference (4.3.2 Crossreference of
> Methods) that's seems very strange to me, and is really of dubious
> value.  I don't know of any o-o language that would choose to document
> a language this way.  A method taken out of context that way is not
> much use, and identically named methods might have completely
> different meanings depending on the method context.
>
> And unfortunately, this table has to be updated manually, which is
> going to be a serious pain.  The information contained here is
> actually duplicated in the index.  If you go to the "method" entry in
> the index, there's essentially the same cross-reference information as
> in this table....but this one is automatically generated for us.  On
> top of that, there's several paragraphs of information about how
> methods behave that are buried at the bottom of this section that are
> of use, but are likely to be skipped over because of the length of
> this table.
>
> I'm proposing that this table be removed, but the information at the
> end be retained and the section be renamed to something reflecting the
> remaining content.
>
> Rick
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I agree, nuke it.

David Ashley


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