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