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On 6/1/2012 5:24 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
...
> Aside from pure linguistic tasks -- writing grammatically and
> correct, spelling words propperly, punctuating well that, sort?
> of thing -- The developer needs some skill at separating himself
> from his own context when documenting his artifact. The person
> who wrote the code participated in the design discussions, knows
> what approaches were considered and rejected (and why), remembers
> only too clearly the bugs that were easy to fix and those that
> kept him awake nights, and is aware that class X began as a bunch
> of parallel `switch' statements in class Y before refactoring.
> When he sets out to document class X, he may have a hard time
> writing in a way that will be intelligible to someone who does
> not share his prior knowledge.

I find it helpful to write unit tests and Javadocs at the same time.
Both require that sort of separation. Both require attention to extreme
and special cases.

Patricia

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unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-30 15:32 +0200
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-05-30 13:48 +0000
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-30 15:52 +0200
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-30 07:54 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-31 22:23 +0200
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 13:40 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-31 16:50 -0400
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 17:18 -0700
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-01 08:14 +0200
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 08:48 -0400
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-01 07:32 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-10 12:16 -0700
              Re: unchecked conversion warning. Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-10 22:08 +0000
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-10 17:09 -0700
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-11 01:31 +0000
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 08:41 -0600
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 08:44 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-01 09:08 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 09:31 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 11:02 -0600
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 13:54 -0400
              Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 16:44 -0700
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 20:24 -0400
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 19:36 -0700
          Re: natural/native language capabilities (was: unchecked conversion warning.) Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 11:01 -0600
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-10 12:13 -0700
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:28 -0400
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Broad Liyn <broadliyn@gmail.com> - 2012-06-10 21:52 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-10 23:50 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-11 00:06 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-16 15:17 +0200
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-18 12:28 -0700
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-19 23:14 +0200
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-19 17:15 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:22 -0400
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:20 -0400

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