Re: Example massacre

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> 
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > So far, the arguments in favor of the "tip & trick" page have
> > basically been "information is hard to find in the manual," which IMO
> > suggests that we should improve the way how information can be looked
> > up.
> 
> Another reason for my original complaint was that several of the
> previous examples have disappeared without being added to the
> manual. 

That was unintentional. Can you be specific what went missing?

> I certainly realize that Bret's idea was to provide a complement
> to the ordinary Index, but I'm afraid that a single such example will
> be far too messy. Maybe we could try to device a set of 5-10 such
> examples to get a reasonable compromise between complexity and
> overview.

Agreed.  


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