new problem with FORM...(helllllp!!!) :)

[Fairlight]

In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:51:01PM -0400, George Simon achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> It was totally pure luck, a shot in the dark, obviously I was only
> trying to waste some of your time. ;-)

*chuckle*  Well you failed miserably, since you were so close to the actual
source.  Run into this before, have we?

I wish we had a collective knowledge base for all the quirks and
workarounds all things fP.  I mean, we have the list archives, but even if
you have all the files (several of us do), diving through them even with
something like grepmail yields way too much stuff; it's not organised
enough.

We have the Survivor Series, but that shows you how to do stuff correctly
the first time, not necessarily how to recover from something you never
designed yourself, may not often revisit, and that may be done either
incorrectly or just a bit oddly, where you have to massage it to make it
work a different way.

And the official docs have always been less than stellar, in my experience.
I had a 4.1 manual.  That's not of much help.

What we could use as a community is actually a database organised by
category (and further in, by function) that gives problems and solutions
that people have found.  An FAQ isn't actually adequate for this task; it
really wants a full knowledge base.  What happens when the people that can
answer the question aren't reading that day/week/month, are on vacation,
got old and retired or died, etc.?  Their knowledge isn't added to the
problem at hand, even if they've previously willingly shared it.

Just a thought to be put out there and ignored like all the dozens of
"bug tracker" and "wish list" type suggestions.  You know, we all have
these thoughts now and again and voice good ideas based on them, even
though we all know full well that nothing will ever come of them.  Just
keeping with tradition, here...

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