Re: PDD for code comments ????

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

David L . Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
>> Some sort of simple markup embedded within the C comments.  Hey, let's
>> extend pod!  Hey, let's use XML!  Hey, let's use SGML!  Hey, let's use
>> XHTML!  Hey, let's use lout!  Hey, ...
>
>Either run pod through a pod puller before the C preprocessor gets to
>the code, or figure out a set of macros that can quote and ignore pod.
>
>The second is Yet Another Halting Problem so we go with the first?
>
>Which means a little program to depod the source before building it,
>or a -HASPOD extension to gcc
>
>Or just getting in the habit of writing 
>
>/*
>=pod
>
>
>and
>
>=cut
>*/

Perhaps we could teach pod that /* was alias for =pod
and */ an alias for =cut ?


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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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