[wp-hackers] author functions assume global

[David Clark]

Hi,

I started digging into author functions today, and I was surprised to 
discover that the author functions assume a globally defined author id 
-- very different than category functions

I wanted and expected
get_the_author_description('1')
to work in the same way as
category_description('1')

I know there was a discussion several months back  about get_* vs 
the_*, but this seems different.

Is it intentional, or just something not don'e yet? should I offer a 
patch?
dc