please take care to fix all examples that us an API you changed

[Barry Smith]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> I was responsible for some of these failures, they are working now.

    Thanks

>
> I see differences in the last digit for a lot of tests which
> contaminates the output.  The use of -xxx_monitor_short should take  
> care
> of most architecture dependence and I think these differences are  
> caused
> by minor algorithmic changes since the reference output was generated.
> I this really is the case, the reference output should be updated.

    Small numerical differences we generally ignore, different  
machines give slightly different results.
It is the examples that did not compiled or that crashed that really  
pissed me off :-)

>
> Also, output generally hasn't been updated for SNES printing minlambda
> so these show up everywhere.

    I'll fix these.

>
> Could someone enlighten me on the difference between "tests" and
> "tutorials"?  Is the idea that tutorials should be commented
> sufficiently verbosely to be useful for learning about a given
> functionality while tests just excercise a given code path?

    Yes. But we are a bit sloppy sometimes.

    Barry

>
> Jed
>