[plt-scheme] documentation guidelines & tools

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Sun Jun 10 11:58:13 EDT 2007

i have tried it and it doesn't work with modules I asked its
maintainer about it and he basically said that it will take a
significant amount of work to add module support, and that he *will*
add it once modules gets standardized in R6RS.

On 6/10/07, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know as I have not used it - I meant from its documentation I can't
> see anything prohibiting using with modules, but once I try it I will let
> you know.
>
>
>
> On 6/9/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> > YC, did SchemeDoc work on your modules?
> >
> > I ran it and it didn't produce anything. Maybe I configured it
> incorrectly?
> >
> > On 6/8/07, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks to all whom replied so far.
> > >
> > > It seems that SchemeDoc should be usable with module files too (at least
> > > nothing I read seem to prohibit it), and the generated document looks
> pretty
> > > good, but doesn't seem compatible with with doc.txt.
> > >
> > > Scribble, on the other hand, still lives in the pre branch, so not sure
> if
> > > it's ready for prime time yet...
> > >
> > > I will try both and see which one works better for my needs.
> > >
> > > So no one pick up on the docstring question yet - does that mean no one
> > > likes docstring? ;)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > yinso
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/8/07, Noel Welsh < noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think the future belongs to Scribble, which I understand is being
> > > > used to document future versions of PLT Scheme.  I have yet to use it,
> > > > but Dave tells me it is easy to use.
> > > >
> > > > I'm about a gnats whisker away from make a macro ala:
> > > >
> > > > (define/doc name documentation value)
> > > >
> > > > [Actually it will probably all definition of contract as well, have a
> > > > shorter name, and support more forms, but you get the idea]
> > > >
> > > > N.
> > > >
> > > > On 6/8/07, Grant Rettke < grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> > > > > Schemedoc works for code that does not live in modules and runs on
> v370:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/schemedoc/
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