On 1/16/2012 1:47 PM, David Mertens wrote:
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.
I suggest replacing the rfits call by rim in
the example since that will load using rfits
by detecting the file type. Other than the
image format being unfamiliar outside of the
astronomy community, the example seems good
to me...
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. ..."
Maybe this shouldn't be first, but it needs to be
the next line or paragraph so perl programmers are
not confused.
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.
Without such a warning, perl programmers could
make *exactly* that mistake.
--Chris
Patches welcome<http://onepeople.org/node/2358>! :-D
David
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