Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:37:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bruce Eckel <brucetec...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: examples in docs (Re: [scala-user] How do I discover what
 exceptions are thrown?)
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Even if the examples discovered this way weren't ideal, they would at least 
give a starting point so they wouldn't have to be created from scratch.

On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:29:35 PM UTC-6, raould wrote:
>
> >>> important, even if it means a ton of work. I believe that it would be 
> a huge 
> >>> help if there could be a basic example for every method in the docs. 
> Right 
> >>> now the docs are about as obscure as they can get, especially for 
> beginners. 
>
> how about something that scours open-source repos for examples? that way 
>
> (a) they would be real-world 
> (b) we'd probably get wider coverage sooner 
>
> ? 
>

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Even if the examples discovered this way weren't ideal, they would at least give a starting point so they wouldn't have to be created from scratch.<br><br>On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:29:35 PM UTC-6, raould wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">&gt;&gt;&gt; important, even if it means a ton of work. I believe that it would be a huge
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; help if there could be a basic example for every method in the docs. Right
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; now the docs are about as obscure as they can get, especially for beginners.
<br>
<br>how about something that scours open-source repos for examples? that way
<br>
<br>(a) they would be real-world
<br>(b) we'd probably get wider coverage sooner
<br>
<br>?
<br></blockquote>
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