[ic] Taking a Poll

Thomas Johnson thomas@unifiedconsulting.com
15 Apr 2001 10:32:41 -0700


On 15 Apr 2001 11:26:52 -0400, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> If, however, you want to start modifying the basics, or you are 
> a webmaster or developer and you are selling your services to 
> others at the minimum you need to know how to research code, how 
> to debug it, and how to compare the code you see to the docs.
> If such a user gets "No description" while searching the docs, 
> he should KNOW he is not using the right tool(s) or the right scope
> and that it is not a bug.  I don't think there is any technological 
> solution to that.

I don't think I understand what you're saying here. What do you mean by

> If such a user gets "No description" while searching the docs, 
> he should KNOW he is not using the right tool(s) or the right scope
> and that it is not a bug.  I don't think there is any technological 
> solution to that.


What do you mean by 'not using the right tool(s) or the right scope'? I
don't think that not having docs for a tag is strictly considered a
'bug' so maybe we are misunderstanding each other. One of the ways that
I decide whether I have to write my own function to do something or
whether I can use an IML tag is to browse through the tags looking for
stuff that I want. Similarly, while I'm browsing I often come across
tags that will help me later on, or that let me know that IC supports
some useful feature. I think a number of other programmers work in a
similar way. But it's impossible to do this with the current setup, and
that's really annoying and greatly increases IC's learning curve.