Re: [Chicken-users] Topics and a main index (was: egg documentation)

[Tobia Conforto]

Graham Fawcett wrote:
> it could be handled in a cascading fashion. A tag on the egg would  
> suffice, but a tag on the procedure could enhance or override it.

My thoughts precisely.


> Perhaps, but it would make a nice hackathon job: if the mechanism is  
> there, someone could zip through an egg's doc and tag a few dozen  
> specialized procedures.


I'm sure I would do it, if nothing else to find obscure procedures  
easily again, using the topic indices.


> I agree that in general an egg-level tag is enough; but there are  
> lots of corner cases. Procedure level tags should be optional, but  
> could be useful.

Useful especially for tagging the builtin units and other "grab bags"  
of miscellaneous procedures.


Tobia