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- From: siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- Subject: Re: Think Reference 2.0 Review
- Message-ID: <C1L8ps.8wn@world.std.com>
- Organization: GCC Technologies
- References: <0E010598.or65ob@kithrup.Irvine.CA.US>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:46:40 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <0E010598.or65ob@kithrup.Irvine.CA.US> nagel@Kithrup.Irvine.CA.US writes:
-
- >I just installed this at work and it seems very useful. However,
- >I hope there is a fixer-upper release soon, as I am concerned that
- >the first few times I really tried to use it, I found spelling
- >errors in symbolic constants. I can live with the occasional typo
- >in descriptive text, but there should be absolutely no errors in the
- >spelling of symbolic constants or function names. The example I came
- >across was under Gestalt in the gestaltFindFolderAttr selector. Since
- >this was the first real lookup I had done, I am forced to wonder how
- >prevalent this problem is in the databases. All in all, though, a
- >very useful product.
-
- In defense of THINK Reference, I feel compelled to point out that even
- the sainted Inside Macintosh contains errors in the spelling of
- symbolic constants, (to say nothing of some of the descriptions) and
- there are places where the interface headers and Inside Macintosh do
- not agree.
-
- The difference, of course, is that you can write in your Inside Macintosh
- books, and correct the interfaces. :-)
-
- R.
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- Senior Software Engineer
- GCC Technologies
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