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harimau777 ◴[] No.45538265[source]
Please don't follow this advice! The best thing about old school Python was that I could reliably pull up the documentation for a library and it would clearly list the arguments and return values for each function.

Now when I look at the documentation for many JavaScript, and even Python, libraries it's just examples. That's great if I'm trying to just throw something together as quickly as possible, but not if I need to fix a problem or actually learn the library.

Also having examples is fine, but they should be considered a bonus; not documentation.

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1. nuancebydefault ◴[] No.45543780[source]
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional.html Remove the examples and then make sense of _ANY_ of that documentation.