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From: Lionel Draghi <Lionel.nospam.Draghi@Ada-France.org>
Subject: Re: Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:32:00 +0200
Date: 2004-10-12T01:32:00+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416b17ef$0$311$626a14ce@news.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.260.1097423011.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Andre <avsaway@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I think you need to keep it simple (as many of the replies also state)
>>Here a sample of how I write down my comment in the source code.
>>
>>    --  .Operation: Put a date-time in a string
>>    --  .Preconditions:
>>    --   .in: FTime, the date-time
>>    --  .Semantics:
>>    --   Format the date-time in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.mmm
>>    --  .Postconditions:
>>    --   .return: a string with the date-time
>>    function Date_As_Str
>>       (SysTime : SYSTEMTIME)
>>       return String;
> 
> 
> This is an absolutly perfect example of why the documentation
> generator needs to parse the full Ada code. 
This is just an absolutly perfect example of why the comments should not 
repeat what is already in the code :-)

On the other hand, if you have to comment about a special parameter 
semantics, parsing the whole Ada code won't help catching a discrepancy.

-- 
Lionel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09 17:44 Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 18:39 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-09 21:04   ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 21:39     ` stephane richard
2004-10-09 23:40     ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 16:39     ` Simon Wright
2004-10-12  0:42       ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-11  7:33     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-10-09 19:21 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-09 21:47   ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 23:20     ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10  8:28       ` Oliver Kellogg
2004-10-10 10:03         ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 15:27           ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-09 23:49     ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 10:36     ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-10 11:26       ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18  8:17         ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-18 11:15           ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18 12:46             ` Björn Persson
2004-10-18 15:39               ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18 13:47             ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-09 22:54 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-09 22:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-09 23:55   ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10  1:02     ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 14:02       ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10  3:29 ` Steve
2004-10-10 14:08   ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 15:06     ` Steve
2004-10-10 15:20   ` Stephen Leake
     [not found]   ` <rlsfz4jdjuj.fsf@jacob.crs4.it>
2004-10-15 13:33     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-16  1:50     ` Steve
2004-10-16 19:46       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-17  3:46         ` Steve
2004-10-10  8:21 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-11 23:02   ` Björn Persson
2004-10-11 23:31     ` Missing features in NaturalAdaBrowseDoc Lionel Draghi
2004-10-12  0:14       ` tmoran
2004-10-12 12:58       ` Marc A. Criley
2004-10-12 21:20         ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-12 17:49       ` Stephane Riviere
     [not found]         ` <416c48a7$0$28918$636a15ce@news.free.fr>
2004-10-12 21:18           ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-13 16:38           ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-14 19:56             ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-15 16:59               ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-12 17:29     ` Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse Stephane Riviere
2004-10-10  9:34 ` Andre
2004-10-10 15:24   ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-10 18:04     ` Andre
2004-10-11 23:32     ` Lionel Draghi [this message]
2004-10-12  0:13       ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 15:13 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-11 20:28 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-11 22:26   ` Björn Persson
2004-10-12 14:09     ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-13  5:01       ` Pylinius
2004-10-13 16:06         ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-13 17:17     ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-17 18:47   ` Bernhard Mulder
2004-10-18 18:06     ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-19  4:41       ` Bernhard Mulder
2004-10-19  9:52         ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-19 10:01         ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-23 21:39           ` Bernhard Mulder
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