On 2/29/00 6:51 AM, Ted Sperling, tedd@... wrote:

>That's what chapters are for. Granted, programming is a different type of
>critter in that what you do to solve one set of problems may employ
>identical code to solve another distant and completely different problem.
>However, I don't see a way around that other than writing redundant
>explanations.

Tedd, WHAT is wrong with redundancy .. If it saves time & energy to find 
the answer .. As the books stand now .. You really don't know where to 
start looking .. Let alone find your answer
>
>One can try to isolate various common problems and thereby provide
>solutions for these specific needs via example. But, the possibilities
>provided by the robust nature of the language prohibits providing examples
>of every possibility.

Here again .. I'm not referring to an explicit .. But a general devoted 
to a particular type .. Good Example .. GWorld .. There should be a 
Pamphlet dedicated to it .. Right from SCRATCH
>
>This is similar to common written language. We have a set of alpha
>characters that can be combined to make words; and those words to make
>sentences; and those sentences to make paragraphs; and those paragraphs to
>make the entire Library of Congress.  And, still we haven't provided all
>the examples that can be.

I spend a LOT of time in the Library of Congress & the Smithsonian .. Be 
surprised the Redundancy .. 


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