Re: Visibility of Indexing aspects

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 21/07/2018 à 00:23, Jere a écrit :
> I will say the RM would benefit with some visual examples for some 
> topics (Scoping, Visibility, Accessibility).  Something like code
> snippets with comments showing the various ins/outs of the
> particular section above it.  It might even go a long way in 
> clarifying some points of the "Heart of Darkness".  I know it
> isn't necessarily an easy task and if I was able to discern it all
> better, I might take a stab at it (so maybe one day in the future).

The 83 reference manual had more examples, and it was a deliberate
decision to have less examples from 95 on. The rationale is that the RM
is for precise definitions, lawyers and compiler writers, and that
examples bring nothing formally except possible errors.

The RM is definitely not for learning the language. BTW, have you seen
anybody learning Fortran or C++ from its standard? In a sense, the wide
availability of the RM made it too easy too look at for beginners!

OTOH, if you want to write an "RM explained and commented" book, you are
very welcome to do so, it would certainly be useful.

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