Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:43, Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> 
>>>>I can see more clearly how the second model (presented by Jo�o) would
>>>>work, but I don't like adding the snippet delimiters in comments. It
>>>>cuts across the Doxygen comment processing. Remember also that the
>>>>comment syntax will be different for different source modes. That said,
>>>>James Fowler has already gone some way towards implementing inclusion
>>>>of snippets.
>>>
>>>I agree. When Joao and I had the chat, I wasn't quite anxious
>>>about the include snippet proposal. I didn't have a strong
>>>case against it at the time and thought that both solutions
>>>are orthogonal anyway. Now, it seems that you provided a
>>>strong case against it: that 1) Qbk needs to know something about
>>>the target language and each markup syntax will be different for
>>>different langauges. This is unwieldy. 2) I too do not like
>>>special tagged comments in my source code. In that sense, I am
>>>not quite fond of Doxygen, in fact.
>> For me, "include source" model is superior to "source inside docs"
>> model. The first reason is that Emacs won't indent source inside
>> docs propertly, and won't even syntax highlight them properly. I'm
>> not kidding -- this is rather 
>
> Well, that's a problem of Emacs, not QuickBook ;-)

To be fair, it's unlikely that any editor is going to be able to
handle multiple different formatting styles in a single file
out-of-the-box, and if anything emacs stands a better chance of being
configured to do it than the others do.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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