Message-ID: <f8e6ff050804250718u6cc654cboe02f3071c6d9cb24@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-04-25T14:18:34Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: RFC: What should ?foo do?
In-Reply-To: <4811D298.4030102@biostat.ku.dk>
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Peter Dalgaard
<P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > I haven't done it, but I suspect we could introduce special behaviour
> > for ??foo very easily. We could even have a whole hierarchy:
> >
> > ?foo, ??foo, ???foo, ????foo, ...
> >
> >
> Heh, that's rather nice, actually. In words, that could read
>
> ?foo: tell me about foo!
> ??foo: what can you tell me about foo?
> ???foo: what can you tell me about things like foo?
> ????foo: I don't know what I'm looking for but it might be something
> related foo?
I like the idea, but why do not it automatically and then display the
results on a single page? (i.e. list results in order of specificity)
Hadley
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