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Re: doc snarfing does not work with Sun Forte preprocessor
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: doc snarfing does not work with Sun Forte preprocessor |
Date: |
11 May 2001 21:35:18 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
Rob> Also (and let me preface this by saying that I don't really
Rob> know much about the current doc-snarf system) has there been
Rob> any discussion about changing the C code so that the
Rob> documentation is defined by a C call that at guile runtime
Rob> crams all the documentation into a common location? It seems
Rob> like it might be possible to do this so that dumping the
Rob> docstrings could then be as simple as
Rob> guile -e \ '(use-modules (ice-9 docdumper)) (for-each
Rob> ... (docstring-table))'
Rob> or similar.
Yes. I think is a pretty attractive option. The only argument
against it, I think, is that it increases the size of libguile.
Rob> (Again, I'm not sure this addresses the current problem,
Rob> since I don't fully understand the current state.)
It does address the current problem, since the docstring would then
need to be grokked only by the C compiler.
Neil