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Re:I'd like to review your README by frou_dh on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:06AM (#26843648)
Here's my README pet peeve: When the examples for some tool that operates on source code show it operating on its own code.

As a reader unfamiliar with a project, it's unpleasant to have to contend with "meta" at a time when one doesn't even have a solid first-order understanding of the project.

Re:I'd like to review your README by nooyurrsdey on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:23AM (#26843733)
prism.js the code syntax highlighter is notoriously bad at this.

At first I felt bad for being confused by something so simple. But all their code examples for highlighting refer to their own code and you're right, at the exact moment you're trying to absorb new information it is infuriating to deal with the "meta" examples.

I don't use them out of that alone.

Re:I'd like to review your README by slhck on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:34AM (#26843790)
This is my main issue with Rspec documentation.
Re:I'd like to review your README by pizzapill on Saturday April 17, 2021 @10:52AM (#26844649)
RSpec has none of that, a typical example from the first page of their documentation:

  RSpec.describe Widget do
    example do
      expect(described_class).to equal(Widget)
    end
  end

Pretty non-meta.