Re: Views, views, views! (long)

On 2005-05-06, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:17, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
>> On 2005-05-05, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>> furthermore, writing the views has often required
>> delving into details of the backend implementation that are not well
>> documented. (See a recent discussion here on typmods for an example.)
>
> This argument at least is a red herring. The answer to a lack of
> documentation about a widget is never to build more widgets that hide the
> original widget and require more documentation, the answer is to better
> document the orginal widget.

I disagree. If you have a bad interface, the fix is to provide a better
one, not aggravate the problem by encouraging even more use of the bad
interface.

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