Euphoria
Ticket #403:
? (print) on strings in docs examples
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Reported by
ne1uno
Nov 17, 2010
example from std/filesys.e
include std/filesys.e
? temp_file("/usr/space", "myapp", "tmp") --> /usr/space/myapp736321.tmp
? temp_file() --> /tmp/277382._T_
actual output
{46,92,109,121,97,112,112,56,53,48,57,56,50,46,116,109,112}
{67,58,92,87,73,78,68,79,87,83,92,84,69,77,80,92,53,48,55,53,49,52,
46,95,84,95}
should the docs be lying about how '?' works on strings?
ex.err too
or is it something you just learn to deal with?
Details
1. Comment by jimcbrown
Nov 17, 2010
The docs should be accurate. In this case, one can just delete the reference to ? altogether and the meaning will remain as intelligible as ever.
2. Comment by ne1uno
Nov 17, 2010
other example samples
include std/convert.e
? to_string("abc",'"') --> "abc"
include std/sequence.e
? pivot( {7, 2, 8.5, 6, 6, -4.8, 6, 6, 3.341, -8, "text"}, 6 )
-- Ans: {{2, -4.8, 3.341, -8}, {6, 6, 6, 6}, {7, 8.5, "text"}}
include std/sequence.e
? combine(s) --> {"cat","dog","fish","snail","whale","wolf","worm"}
? combine(s, COMBINE_UNSORTED) --> {"cat","dog","fish","whale","wolf","snail","worm"}
include std/locale.e
? money(1020.5) -- returns"$1,020.50"
? number(1020.5) -- returns "1,020.50"
include std/datetime.e
? datetime("Today is a %A",dt:now())
include std/stats.e
? small( {"def", "qwe", "abc", "try"}, 2 )
--> Ans: {"def", 1} (The 2nd smallest value)
? largest( {"just","text"} ) -- Ans: {}
I think it will be a little strange to only use ? for numeric output, at least in the same set of examples.
include std/map.e
? pairs(m1) -- { {"AB", 2}, {"XY", 1} }
--there are quite a few stack examples. only showing a few here
include std/stack.e
? at(sk,-1) -- "abc"
? peek_top(sk,1) -- ""
actually is {}
? peek_top(sk,2) -- "abc"
3. Comment by jimcbrown
Nov 18, 2010
These all need to be changed. Showing the real output of ? is not helpful for documentation purposes, though.
4. Comment by DerekParnell
Nov 18, 2010
Started working on fixes.
5. Comment by jeremy
Dec 03, 2010
Completed and new manual uploaded.
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