[Haskell-cafe] Poor libraries documentation

Robin Green greenrd at greenrd.org
Wed Jan 30 09:03:29 EST 2008


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:15:41 +0000
Jules Bean <jules at jellybean.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Neil is on Windows. Windows doesn't have man pages (or libc).
-- 
Robin


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