• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Nah, it’s not, code is modular (IME should be kinda tree-structured), a book is linear.

    So the API should be in your analogy the synopsis. And I haven’t said, that there shouldn’t be any comments. E.g. doc-comments above functions, explaining the use-cases and showing examples are good practice.

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      11 year ago

      Books can be modular as well (ever heard of “Rayuela” by Cortazar?) But that’s beside the point. The analogy is fine and it works.