What is the usecase for this information? Giving people quick access to docs in the REPL?
Robby On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > I don't know that anything better is available right now, but maybe the > question should be: What should Scribble provide? > > Originally, I had in mind including docstring-like information in the > cross-reference output of a Scribble document. That approach would work > badly with the current implementation of cross-reference information, > however, because the information already takes too much memory. (On a > 32-bit machine, around 20MB of DrRacket's initial footprint is > cross-reference information for installed documentation, and that cost > doubles when online check syntax is enabled.) Probably cross-reference > information should actually be in a database, instead of a serialized > hash table, but I haven't yet tried anything in that direction. > > Any other ideas? > > At Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:42:07 -0500, Danny Yoo wrote: >> I'm trying to extract documentation strings for all the functions in >> racket/base. By documentation strings, I truly mean strings. Here's >> the progress I'm making on this: >> >> https://github.com/dyoo/extract-docstring >> >> It's buggy still, and I'm working out the kinks. >> >> >> The process I'm using to approach this is frankly a little insane, and >> I would rather not go to the nuthouse for this. I'm using setup/xref >> and scribble/xref to figure out the source line and anchor of a >> binding. Next, I parse the HTML, grab at the element with the given >> anchor name, and start sucking up HTML till I hit the next anchor. >> >> >> I am web-scraping, and I know I should be ashamed of myself. But I do >> not see any other mechanisms available to me at the moment. Have I >> missed something obvious? > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
