Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > Another alternative would be Javadoc / doxygen / ... style comments
> > (say #@ introduces a comment to be extracted).
>
> Yuk. More magic to remember. Me hate.
What magic? The program that does the documentation isn't going to be
called `perl' (`perl' is the name of the program that exhibits the
bugs in what you wrote). We already have 3 ways of getting Perl to
ignore things (comments, =BLAH, and void context; do we really need
another 3?
> I say bring the documentation so close to the thing it documents
> that they can see each others' nose hair.
Have you looked at the documentation that SWIG auto-generates?
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