PyWart: Poor Documentation Examples

[Dan Sommers]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:20:34 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:


> A favorite example of mine is automata-acceptance:
> If 
> δ : Q × Σ → Q is a transition function
> F is the set of final states
> q₀ is the start state
> and s is a string
> 
> then
> reduce(δ,q₀,s) ∈ F
> expresses "automaton accepts string s"
> 
> Should that go into the doc??

Absolutely.  :-)  If the docs had explained that reduce is
actually a finite state machine framework, then I wouldn't
have written my such framework.

> I'll leave that to somebody else whose name starts with 'R' :-)

Uh, oh.  Sorry.

-- 
Dan Sommers, neither of which begins with an 'R'