Examples are the best documentation
16 hours ago
- Most developers need a single example to understand documentation, but official sources rarely provide them.
- Formal docs target experts, yet many developers juggle multiple contexts and need quick context restoration.
- Python's max() doc example shows complexity: users must understand *, /, positional-only, iterables, keyword-only, key, etc., while a simple code example would suffice.
- Community projects like clojuredocs.org show the value of practical examples that include related functions, making them indispensable for daily coding.