[plt-scheme] Documenting Scheme code

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 14 13:29:01 EDT 2008

I use scrible to document APIs all the time. See world.scrbl, which  
is an API for teachers and students.


On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Marek Kubica wrote:

> Hi again!
>
> PLT Scheme has the nice Scribble tool which can be used to create text
> documentation about a program. But as far as I see, it is not intended
> for API documentation in a JavaDoc or PyDoc-style.
>
> I like the stardarized Python docstrings (= first string in a function
> is it's docstring) and that's why I'm asking. How would you,
> experienced Scheme programmers document funtions, and definitions in
> Scheme files? I couldn't find any advice on how to document code yet.
>
> Or am I just thinking too much about it and it would be best to  
> write a
> documentation comment using ; before the function definition?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> regards,
> Marek
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