On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Fabio D'Alfonso <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
> I would reconsider the introductory examples based on M51. Honestly I did
> not ever know the existence of a fits format and at first glance I thought
> that rfits was a *fitting* function.
> So probably this galaxy is probably a bit confusing to introduce the
> subject.
>
> I would suggest to rethink some other aspect of the introduction. For
> example I would point at what piddles are instead than what they are not.
>
> Piddles are NOT Perl `arrays'
> "It is now time to answer a question which has probably been nagging at
> the back of your mind for a while. ..."
>
> This kind of presentation creates a comparison which is not necessary, and
> it sounds as "hashes are not arrays", but no one thinks that at first. It
> is such an invitation to make the mistake.
>

Patches welcome <http://onepeople.org/node/2358>! :-D

David
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