Re: [jamboost] EXIT and errors.error

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-12 14:57:40

[2002-11-12] David Abrahams wrote:

>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> On this I disagree... I think documentation output, to console,
>> should be re-wrapped, just as it would be if it was HTML instead. I
>> know people generally write sensible-looking comments, but that is
>> subjective. They write sensible comments on their editor, which
>> invariably is always set to different proportions to everyone
>> else. So people who use variable width fonts will write longer lines
>> than fixed width editing people causing strange and inconsistent
>> output to whoever reads the documentation. And documentation should
>> be the one thing that is the most consistent in a program, as it's
>> usually the first interface to your program people see.
>
>Sure. As long as your re-wrapper doesn't reinterpret my intentional
>breaks and indentation, I think the trade-off is in favor of
>re-wrapping (assuming you can tell something intelligent about how
>wide to make the output). However, once it starts garbling what I've
>written in the comment, the trade-off starts to go the other way.

Yes that's a reasonable argument ;-) But, like all languages, C++, English,
Jam, ReST; the difficulties are in communicating intent. This is why I'm
slowly adding things like the "::" pre-formated indicator. And I'm trying to
mimic ReST because it's an already proven model for communicating intent in
the code documentation domain.

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