[Haskell-cafe] Poor libraries documentation

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Anton van Straaten wrote:

> Derek Elkins wrote:
>
> > Arguably, this
> > -is- more defensible on a safety/correctness grounds than reading the
> > documentation.  Documentation can be out of date or wrong or right but
> > the implementation is wrong.  So it comes down to a matter of
> > trust/convincing.
>
> Reading the documentation alone isn't enough from a correctness
> perspective - you also need to test.  As Reagan liked to put it, trust
> but verify.

... wasn't this Lenin?

:-)