微软的文档……

December 11, 2007 1:04 am GMT-0700 | In Tech

同样是字符串里找子串的函数,微软 VB 的文档:

Returns an integer specifying the start position of the first occurrence of one string within another.

Public Shared Function InStr(_
    ByVal String1 As String, _
    ByVal String2 As String, _
    Optional ByVal Compare As CompareMethod _
) As Integer

Parameters

String1
Required. String expression being searched.

String2
Required. String expression sought.

读完了一头雾水,TMD 到底哪个参数是要找的子串??being searched?sought??我英语不好也不要这么欺负我啊。再看微软 VC++ 类似函数的文档:

Return a pointer to the first occurrence of a search string in a string.

char *strstr(
   const char *str,
   const char *strSearch
); // C only

Parameters

str
Null-terminated string to search.

strSearch
Null-terminated string to search for.

Return Value
Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of strSearch in str

VC++ 里解释比 VB 的稍好一些,但是还是不清不楚的,功能说明为啥不写清楚哪个 string 是哪个呢?变量名为什么要写得这么诡异呢?参数说明里一个是 search,一个是 search for,TMD 又欺负我英语差!像这种常用函数,一般人都知道大概怎么用,只是偶尔不确定看一下参数顺序,你这么个文档还得让人费脑细胞琢磨,要你何用!再看 PHP 里类似的函数:

int strpos ( string $haystack, mixed $needle [, int $offset ] )

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

PHP 这个文档光看参数名就足以明白参数顺序了,看了功能解释就更清楚了。MacOS 的 man page:

char *strstr(const char *big, const char *little);

The strstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string little in the null-terminated string big.

有一百种方法可以把这个函数的参数顺序写的很明确,但是微软偏偏选择了不明朗的写法。想起一般微软的程序很少有人去看 HELP 解决问题,而 MacOS 和 *nix 下面看文档则是家常便饭,看来微软文档无用论还是很有道理的……

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  1. Orz

    Comment by hutuworm — December 11, 2007 7:01 am GMT-0700 #

  2. A 董您真是太伟大了!

    Comment by kxn — December 16, 2007 5:20 pm GMT-0700 #

  3. 今天水木为微软和linux又起争端,其中有一项就是msdn和man page,a core这个页面被拖出来游行了

    Comment by ITExpress — August 16, 2008 3:54 am GMT-0700 #

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