So what would you do if you were unclear on how to do something based on the docs and googling? Have you genuinely never done anything even slightly out of spe

So what would you do if you were unclear on how to do something based on the docs and googling? Have you genuinely never done anything even slightly out of spec with library author's expectations? Do you never need just part of the functionality of a library and wonder what the right way to get it is? Do you always just decide "it's not documented in a way I understand it, time to roll my own"?