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From: Evan Prodromou <evan@glug.org>
Subject: Re: how authors of add-on modules can package documentation
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:04:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877koa3a2v.fsf@gaff.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r8mikbt6.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "17 Mar 2002 23:35:17 +0000")

>>>>> "NJ" == Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

    NJ> I believe the consensus at the end of those threads preferred
    NJ> docs as strings rather than as comments; i.e.

    NJ> (define (xxx arg) "Do something" ...)

    NJ> rather than

    NJ> ;;; Do something 
    NJ> (define (xxx arg) ...)

OK, but as I mentioned before, there doesn't seem to be much provision
for doc'ing variables, classes, methods, etc. with docstrings.

~ESP

-- 
Evan Prodromou
evan@glug.org

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-18  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-17  4:18 how authors of add-on modules can package documentation Neil W. Van Dyke
2002-03-17 16:41 ` Evan Prodromou
2002-03-17 23:35   ` Neil Jerram
2002-03-17 23:45     ` Neil Jerram
2002-03-18  2:04     ` Evan Prodromou [this message]
2002-04-03  5:29       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-03  3:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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