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Hi,
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:31:26 +0200
> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
> > The explanations of the slot operators are a bit hard to read,
> > maybe rephrasing (and splitting in more sentences) is the way to go
> > here.
>
> I suspect those're hard to read because people are expecting a
> user-centric description of what they're for, rather than a package
> manager centric description of how they behave.
But also package manager coders are humans (at least the last time I
checked), and apart from accuracy a technical documentation needs
readability in its own special way. I wrote enough "scientific" and
technical documents to be sure that small, easy to understand sentences
are better.
V-Li
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