On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.12.2010 um 21:42 schrieb Ken Wesson: > >> (Where did >> you find vary-meta? There seems to be a lot of stuff that's there, but >> hardly anyone knows about.) > > http://clojure.github.com/clojure/ > > Hope that helps.
That's not what I meant. I figure all of us have tabs permanently open to there (I have two actually). What we don't have is the whole thing memorized, or the time to read it all rather than use it for reference and, sometimes, control-F it for things. In particular, my due diligence with atoms and metadata consisted of searching for functions that work directly with atoms. Of course vary-meta isn't one of them. My question of Alan was really more a matter of how he found it -- what called his attention to it. I don't think there's actually a serious problem with the documentation here; people can't memorize the documentation as there's too much of it, nor read it all in advance for the same reason, and search on particular topics won't always find something useful that's not quite directly related to that topic, but there's little that can be done about it. The documentation can't be made much shorter without making it incomplete, nor can every search scenario be anticipated in advance. So, sometimes people will not know about various functions, especially more obscure ones that are uncommonly used. The only problem, in other words, and it is a minor one, is when people post (possibly only implied) criticisms of other people for happening to not know about one of those things. That will lead to a fair amount of time being wasted both on posting such criticisms and on defending against same by pointing out what due diligence one performed and why it didn't find whatever particular thing. Note: that last is not directed at you, in particular, Meikel. It was Alan (notably the only partly-anonymous user in this thread thus far) that was a bit abrupt and seemed to be suggesting that I had done something wrong, or at least questionable, and then explicitly recommended other people ignore my code (despite the fact that it works perfectly), and most likely he simply either got up on the wrong side of the bed or didn't quite mean it that way but misstated something. At the same time, it was also Alan who called our attention to the existence of the vary-meta function. Make of that what you will. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
