Re: Lack of detailed documentation

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:18 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:36 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> One thing that surprised me is that I couldn't find any well-known
>> name for what the * and / operators are doing; digging around on
>> the net and in some dusty old math textbooks didn't yield any exact
>> matches. I ended up adding footnotes with the actual computations,
>> but I'm not very happy with that approach. Surely Lockhart[1] got this
>> definition from someplace, though, and didn't invent it out of thin air.
>>
>>
> I'd move the footnote indicator to:
>
> Available for point[a], box, path, circle.
> Available for point[b], box, path, circle.
>
> As the footnote only applies to that specific left operand type.
>
> Or maybe:
>
> Available for box, path, and circle. It is also defined for point [a] but
> it has no related physical meaning.
>

Nevermind...

David J.