From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-01-03T01:25:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30053] Re: Ruby parsers in Ruby

Pierre-Charles David <Pierre-Charles.David@emn.fr> writes:

> > Imagine... that the C source of the built-in libraries in Rite
> > included RDoc documentation of each class, module, and method
> > (bootstrapped from the current ri descriptions, perhaps)...
> 
> Do you mean something like Emacs Lisp documentation strings?

Initially no - I mean more like JavaDoc or Doxygen style
documentation: something extractable and printable. The intent here is
to keep the documentation up to date by putting it alongside the
source. Having the documentation available _inside_ the running
interpreter is a fine goal, but it would need a change to the
internals, and it would add considerably to the interpreter's runtime
size.


Dave