I've been trying to learn Pike. Since I already program in C++, XBasic, and other OOP languages, I have noticed that the same roadblock pops up over and over again when I am working in Pike. I keep having to review the pmod "implementation" files to find clarification for parameters, usage of methods, and class inheritance relationships.
I think that this is because the reference manual seems to be a bit thin in a few places.
As a way to encourage more input to the documentation, Could we use the existing Wiki as a Documentation repository? That way, as Pike Programmers "discovered" information about modules, classes, and methods, we could save the information, or examples of use in the WiKi...
Thanks for your time, I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Frank Myers
the caudium site has a copy of the pike reference which allows comments: http://caudium.net/developer/pikeref/index.html
unfortunately more people use it to enter rubbish as opposed to something usefull.
but if more people use this, then maybe the situation will improve.
I'm trying to keep an eye out for contributions that should be in the official manual and merge it. This rarely happens though - i'm thinking it's been about a year.
/ Peter Lundqvist (disjunkt)
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2003-10-21 17:33: Subject: Re: Pike-Doc WiKi
the caudium site has a copy of the pike reference which allows comments: http://caudium.net/developer/pikeref/index.html
unfortunately more people use it to enter rubbish as opposed to something usefull.
but if more people use this, then maybe the situation will improve.
/ Brevbäraren
nevertheless i think it's a good idea to try to direct more people towards this and maybe have a chance to improve the situation.
greetings, martin.
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