[racket-dev] Redirecting documentation links

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri May 6 12:13:50 EDT 2011

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> The explanation and indirection looks right to me.

Ok, I'll do that.

> There's a tension between documentation that explains everything that
> should be explained and documentation that succinctly and clearly
> explains what most people need most of the time. Our
> guide-versus-reference organization tries to manage that tension, and I
> think it's sensible for `racket/base' and `typed/racket' to share a
> guide-level description of `for'. At the same time, we don't yet have a
> good way for a user to pick between guide-level or reference-level
> information; I think it would solve the immediate problem and much more.

I agree -- Typed Racket has a similar problem, since there's also a
(much less comprehensive) TR guide.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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