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Re: isa strangeness
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Francesco Potortì |
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Re: isa strangeness |
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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:29:55 +0200 |
Martin Helm:
>
>> The help string of isa is not really good here.
Jaroslav Hajek:
>On the contrary, I think that the help string is OK, It's just that
>Richard doesn't understand the fundamentals of Octave syntax; but we
>surely can't repeat those in every docstring, can we?
Mh. The help string in 3.2 is:
-- Function File: isa (X, CLASS)
Return true if X is a value from the class CLASS.
While this may be good as a help string (and even there an example would
help, as suggested on the list), it is too terse for a manual. Even if
I look for 'class' in the index, the only match is that same page, where
no description is found of what is a CLASS. Nor can one find a
reference to some place where what is a CLASS is explained.
Maybe the cure should be to put an explanation of what a CLASS is at the
beginning of that page, together with examples of usage of the
subsequent functions.
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