[plt-scheme] documentation guidelines & tools

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 8 11:23:29 EDT 2007

I wonder whether someone could turn this into a button-based tool à  
la Check Syntax for all 'professional' language levels. -- Matthias




On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Grant Rettke wrote:

> Schemedoc works for code that does not live in modules and runs on  
> v370:
>
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/schemedoc/
>
> On 6/7/07, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I have a few questions regarding creating documentations for  
>> libraries...
>> thanks for any input ;)
>>
>> 1) Is there a standard guideline on how to do documentations/ 
>> comments?
>>
>> 2) Most libs have doc.txt - is there a standard template for  
>> doc.txt and
>> explanations for its format?
>>
>> 3) Any Scheme philosophy on inline documentations in the code  
>> (i.e. for or
>> against) - It seems that Scheme doesn't have docstrings, does this  
>> mean it's
>> not actively encouraged as a style?
>>
>> 4) Any tools for generating doc.txt from inline documentations?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> yinso
>>
>>
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