On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:16:25 -0700, James Britt <jbritt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Sam Roberts wrote:
> >> Quoting jbritt@xxxxxxxxxxxx , on Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:16:08PM -0700:
> >>> Yes, but if someone updates the docs for Ruby version x, then people
> >>> should be able to get that update without waiting for a new Ruby
> >>> release.
> >> Doc patches are like a lot of bug fixes, they apply to old versions.
> > s/old/a range of old/ :-) Many, but not necessarily all.
> Which is why I'm thinking that ri updates should just be complete data
> files. They're small enough.
Disagree. Those data files can be amended, I think, by additional documentation.
That is, if you run the ri documentation on Diff::LCS, because
Diff::LCS offers the ability to extend Array, it modifies the
documentation for Array in ri.
-austin
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