On Sunday, January 13, 2013 1:03:35 PM UTC-5, Marcel Möhring wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> is there a better way to document a function if I want to include type 
> information 
> and parameters for in/out? 
>
> Currently I am using this approach but it feels rather clumsy: 
>
> "Takes a screen and a pixel coordinate and returns 
>     a map of maps with pixel colors 
>     and adjusted pixel coordinates around the pixel. 
>     Directions are degree numbers from 0 to 315. 
>     in: screen (BufferedImage), x (Number), y (Number) 
>     out: map of maps ({direction (Number) {:color (Number) :x (Number) 
> :y (Number)}})" 
>
> Are there any better ways? 
>
>
I'd add some whitespace and format that docstring in markdown:

~~~
"Takes a screen and a pixel coordinate and returns a map of maps with
pixel colors and adjusted pixel coordinates around the pixel.
Directions are degree numbers from 0 to 315.

in:

  * screen (a BufferedImage)
  * x (a Number)
  * y (a Number)

out: a map of maps, for example,

    {direction {:color some-color
                :x     x
                :y     y}
     ...}

where `direction`, `some-color`, `x`, and `y` are all numbers."
~~~

Not only will that be easier to read, but also I suspect that API doc 
generator tools will eventually have optional support for treating 
docstrings as md and rendering them as html. (Hm, come to think of it, I 
opened an issue for codox a little while back regarding this 
<https://github.com/weavejester/codox/issues/14>.)

---John

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