Improved Phobos dox

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Sep 15 18:54:34 PDT 2013


On 9/15/13 1:11 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-15 20:25, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 18:02:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Vladimir, do you think you could easily implement such an incremental
>>> search box (with autocompletion)?
>>
>> Sorry, that idea does not appeal to me either. Web browsers already have
>> the function of searching within a page. An in-page search box is not a
>> common UI element, users would need to learn to use it, and that's bad
>> UX - we should stick to existing UI conventions to avoid forcing the
>> users to think to get to their dox.
>
> The Ruby documentation shows all core symbols (classes and methods) in
> one page with two filters. I like that. It's really useful when you know
> the name of the method/class you're looking for. It's also useful for
> guessing names. Like, is there a method called "sort". Then you find it
> you can figure out if it does what you think it will.

Aha, I now remember - you mentioned this once, really like it.

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/


Andrei




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