Re: built in rv objects -- "bug" in documenation

[Sven N. Thommesen]

Okay, okay, guys, this is getting embarrassing ...

I agree that a gentle introduction to the use of the random objects ought
to be there. The material that I wrote and included with the random library
is, as Rick indicates, attempting to be complete rather than a pedagogical
intro.

If Paul/Alex would like, I'll be happy to take a stab at the missing
introduction for their User Guide.

Sven

At 07:57 PM 1/26/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>>> "RR" == Rick Riolo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>RR> Thanks to all for the answers...I must apologize for my ill-formed
>RR> question.  I actually know about all this stuff and where it is.
>RR> What I was asking was where, if anywhere, in the documentation is
>RR> there one page, say, that tells the beginning user about these
>RR> built in objects, and about --varyseed's effect on them?
>
>Rick,
>
>You are right that we do have no such page in the reference
>documentation as it stands.  I can only say that it was never the
>purpose of the reference guide.  It's purpose is to document (however
>tersely, that may be sometimes), exactly the interfaces as they stand.
>
>RR> I bring this up because the ref manual, with its nice indicies and
>RR> cross-references as made it *so much easier* to get beginners
>RR> oriented and on their own.
>
>I think your suggestion, which is a good one, definitely belongs in
>the User Guide that Paul Johnson and myself are writing in the
>background (when we get a spare nanosecond to do so ;-))
>
>I'd be more than happy to include such a high-level outline for
>beginners, in the User Guide if you could send me some text.  Or if
>you take some to FAQ material and whip it into shape, that's also
>fine.  I'm certainly happy to finesse the finer technical details, if
>you're not completely certain on the exact syntax.
>
>Regards,
>
> --- Alex
>
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