I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> Thursday, August 18, 2005, 1:01:28 PM, you wrote:
>
>>Jon wrote:
>>>I envy those of you who use Rev all of the time.  For the rest of us, it
>>>continues to be a very frustrating experience.
>
>>How many other multi-platform programming language have your learned,
>>and how much less time did they take to master?
> 
> Sorry, Richard, but I think this is out of line here. I don't really
> know where I learned about the backslash, but it ain't easy finding
> out what the line continuation character is unless you ask it here.
> It's certainly not obvious from searching through the documentation,
> and if it's in there I couldn't say where it is. I learn a lot by
> looking at other people's code, but not everyone has the same style of
> learning.

Of course; I wouldn't presume to speak for all users, exerienced or 
otherwise.

I learned about Transcript's line continuation character from other 
scripters, just like Jon did.  If that was the extent of his post there 
would have been no reason for follow-ups from Chipp, me, other the 
others who've replied here.

But since he raised the suggestion that Rev is unusually frustrating, to 
understand what he means it's helpful to know what he's comparing it to.

All product documentation has holes in it, and not just software; cars, 
cell phones, and many other product docs are just as lacking. Everyone 
tries to do a good job with their docs, but everyone fails with some 
detail or another.  As Chipp pointed out, the world's most popular IDE 
made by the world's richest software company fails just as miserably as 
Rev on this one.

As I noted in my previous post, I fully agree with Jon that it would be 
great for Rev to include an entry for the backslash token in the docs. 
If someone will kindly drop this into the BZ queue we can expect that to 
happen, then we'd never need to think about it again and Rev would have 
one up on Microsoft.  I remain very supportive of any productive 
activities that improve the product and people's experience with it.

And as far as learning a programming language being frustrating, I agree 
there too -- all of them are at one time or another.

If Rev is portrayed as frustrating enough to be noteworthy, I don't see 
how it's out of line to ask what it's being compared to.

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