Re: Ada and Doxygen

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:10:16 +0100, Georg Bauhaus
> <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a écrit:
>> Not being a designer, I still think there already
>> is something serving as an even better solution
>> (in terms of real-world usability).
>>
>> Using facilities of AI05-0183,
>>
>>
>>  procedure Pop (Cap : Bottle_of_Beer)
>>    with Brief => "produces the sound of opening a bottle",
>>         Pre'Class => not Is_Open (Bottle);
> We all wait for that, but it is not there, and anyway, it's source and
> source will never have the expected properties of a document (like
> publication, browsing).

Browsing is better for Ada in GPS or Emacs Ada mode; you can get to
_all_ of the source, not just what the Doxygen viewer has access to. 

what do you mean by "publication"?

> I was also seeking for something like this for other purpose I will
> not  talk about for the moment (let say it has to deal with verbosity
> and  contexts which are foreign to sources).

"contexts foreign to sources" requires something much better than
Doxygen can provide. It has to abstract and summarize the whole
program; Doxygen comments are all local.

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