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Subject: Re: [boost] Improving Documentation
From: TONGARI J (tongari95_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-11 09:31:19


2013/10/11 Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]>

> On 11/10/13 00:47, Andrew Hundt wrote:
>
> I completely agree that boost docs should generally be a "how to use"
>> guide. The additional steps I also think would be reasonable are for the
>> "how to use" detail to be easier to browse around and links to all the
>> existing examples and tests.
>>
>
> There are two parts to a documentation:
> - a reference documentation, which says non-ambiguously what a function
> does, what its preconditions are, which file it is in, etc.
> It is easy to agree upon the fact that this documentation should be
> written with Doxygen to ensure that it's always in sync with real code.
>

I think Doxygen is fine for "regular" libraries, but I always have a
question: how could a library like Spirit be doucumented with it?


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