On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:33:23AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:17:03PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > no, code in a program could never be a secondary section. it is > > > inherently the "primary topic" of the work - which automatically > > > excludes it from being secondary. > > > > It seems to me that this cannot quite be right, at least, not in the > > way craig intends it. > > you are wrong, and your tortured attempt at a tautology is bogus.
Actually, I thought he had a reasonable argument. Sure, it's easy to say that there's a distinction between 'text with a technical subject matter' and 'text with a non-technical subject matter', but the same is true for, say, a grep tool with a sort plugin. The 'primary' subject of the code of that grep tool would be the actual regex code and the ability to output lines that match your regular expression; the 'secondary' subject of the code would be the sorting. Why would there be a difference with documentation? This is a serious question, not a joke. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
