From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-09T05:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:59:32 +0900
"Sean O'Dell" <sean@cSePlsoAfMt.com [REMOVE_THE_SPAM]> wrote:

> Ryan, for what it's worth, I like this pretty much how it works right 
> now.  If I were to change anything it would be:

Thanks... feedback is good.

> Make it so "!" is re-definable and ignore any text that appears before 
> it.  This could be used as a generic source code parser which extracts 
> documentation, etc. from the source code (by parsing anything after a 
> comment character + a semaphor).  As a stand-alone library, that could 
> have lots of other uses.

I'll definitely include this in the next release... probably on both a
global and a per-TagSet basis.  Basically, it just splits the string on
a regexp, and the regexp is currently /^\s*!(\w+):?/.  I just picked !
because I believe javadoc and doxygen use it, so it might be familiar.

In the next release I'll also try to include a basic tool that generates
HTML as an example.  This wasn't my primary goal, but it'd probably be
useful.

thanks,

-- 
Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

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