Re: recent changes to help functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Jan-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| søn, 25 01 2009 kl. 19:18 +0100, skrev Søren Hauberg:
| > søn, 25 01 2009 kl. 19:01 +0100, skrev David Bateman:
| > > Again this worked in October when I was working on the OOP stuff. Can't 
| > > say if it worked recently..
| > 
| > Okay, so I got tricked by the simple fact that the only function that
| > actually has any documentation in the 'examples/@polynomial' directory
| > is indeed the 'polynomial' function. So, this did indeed work before.
| > But it also seems to work with the m-file implementation. The only
| > problem being that the error message is bad. That is, if I type
| > 
| >   help @polynomial/polyval
| > 
| > and this function doesn't have any documentation, then I get an error
| > message saying
| > 
| >   error: help: address@hidden/polyval' not found
| > 
| > which is very misleading (it should just say that the function is not
| > documented).
| 
| Okay, the attached changeset changes the error message into saying that
| the function is not documented. Now this stuff seems to work just fine
| for me.
| 
| I do, however, still see one regression: I cannot do
| 
|   type @polynomial/set
| 
| which used to be possible. The problem is that
| 
|   exist ("@polynomial/set")
| 
| returns 0 which the new implementation of 'type' cannot handle. So, my
| question is: should the above call to 'exist' return something else, or
| should the 'type' implementation be changed such that it doesn't depend
| on 'exist'?

I fixed this problem.

Please commit your change.

  # HG changeset patch
  # User address@hidden

You might want to set

  [ui]
  username = Søren Hauberg <...>

in your .hgrc file so that your ID in the commit logs is meaningful.

Thanks,

jwe