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From: Jan Skibinski <jans@numeric-quest.com>
To: "Adam P. Jenkins" <ajenkins@javanet.com>
Cc: jay@compiler.kaist.ac.kr,
	Vincent Poirriez <poirriez@univ-valenciennes.fr>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: documentation automatique
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:48:16 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980831072944.20487A-100000@info.numeric-quest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001bdd38c$a56517f0$9d8c5ed1@dwarin>



On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Adam P. Jenkins wrote:

> I think he means something like Javadoc, but for O'Caml instead of Java.
> With Javadoc, you put a comment in front of every function or class in your
> code, using some special format for the comments, and then run Javadoc with
> the source code as input.  It extracts the special comments and generates an
> HTML document for your code.  I've seen several programs like this for C++
> also, but not for Caml yet.

	And soon all sources would be obfuscated by all
	sorts of tags, and hardly directly readable by
	a programmer. Unless we have built powerful tools,
	where original source is no longer important
	-- as in Smalltalk or Eiffel -- this does not look
	to me as a good idea. 

	See http://www.numeric-quest.com/news/NQ-comments.html

	Jan

	





  reply	other threads:[~1998-08-31 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-08-27 12:39 Vincent Poirriez
1998-08-28  2:59 ` Jae-Youn Chung
1998-08-29 20:36   ` Adam P. Jenkins
1998-08-31 12:48     ` Jan Skibinski [this message]
1998-08-31  6:47 ` Francois Pessaux
1998-08-31 12:48 Sven
1998-09-01  9:11 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
1998-08-31 14:36 Ken Wakita

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