From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-07-12T06:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc/attributes

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> 
> PG> [...]
> 
> 
>>>$ rdoc -A documented_as_accessor=RW
> 
> 
>>>  def self.documented_as_accessor(*args); end
> 
> 
>>>  # Bar is very important
>>>  documented_as_accessor :bar
> 
> 
> 
> PG> Yes, that rocks! Thanks Joel,
> 
> Dammed, and it makes the life for tool writers much much harder.
> I really hate this ruby hacks. So there is no standard way to generate
> rdoc - this is far from good. Not everything that works is a well engineered
> solution.

Why do you care _how_ the rdoc is generated? Can't you let rdoc do its
thing, generating to ri format, and load the resulting yaml? (Or maybe
even use the rdoc api.)

I probably don't understand what kind of tool functionality you have in
mind.