[Haskell-cafe] Poor libraries documentation
Jules Bean
jules at jellybean.co.uk
Wed Jan 30 08:15:41 EST 2008
Neil Mitchell wrote:
> For a start, its probably a good idea to mention that cos is an
> abbreviation of cosine (most people will know, but its handy to state
> it). Secondly, and much more importantly, it should state whether
> these measurements are in degrees or radians. It should also state
> things like acos is the inverse of cos - its been a while since I last
> used trig and I had to look it up!!!
I imagine the laziness here was because these all match their names in
the traditional libc, accessable via manpages.
You may not consider that an excuse :)
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