From: nico <n1k0@...>
Date: 2002-09-01T05:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community

On August 31, 2002 02:44 pm, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> This is just a thought, but, Python has a standard (discussed in this forum
> some time back) that if there's a string before the first executable line
> of code in a class then it's intended to contain some documentation about
> that class.

lisp has a similar feature, which emacs uses to produce its documentation 
(http://www.gnu.org/manual/elisp-manual-20-2.5/html_node/elisp_358.html#SEC361)

It seems this sort of thing would be less painful than having to write the 
entire documentation at once for an API.

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