From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T03:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Doc Strings?

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, 4:54:11 AM, Joey wrote:

> I seem to remember something like this in Ruby, but I can't find it now. In
> Python there is the concept of a doc string; a String of text just inside a
> method of class definition. You can get this string at runtime by asking
> for an attribute called __DOC__. Is there anything equivalent in Ruby?

No.  The closest thing (which isn't even close, because it's not
runtime-accessible, but at least it's "literate programming") is RDoc,
with which you can document each method in the source code, and
extract (painlessly) that documentation into HTML and other targets.

Gavin