Julian Foad wrote:
> We need doc strings.  We always do, but especially at this point we need
> them in order to assist other people in joining the effort to implement
> WC-NG.  I think one of the most useful things I can do at this point is
> help write them.
> 
> Doc strings go hand in hand with API design, as I'm sure we all know
> (subconsciously at least), so as I try to write them I am necessarily
> examining and trying to guess and then sometimes suggesting changes to
> the API design.  Sometimes that will be a separate step, sometimes part
> of the same patch.
> 
> Most of the APIs I'm looking at are private and sparsely documented, and
> 'wc_db.h' has a comment ending, '... do not want to doc until it feels
> like it is "Right"'.  It seems the time is now Right to consolidate,
> document, and change where better options are now apparent.  I don't
> want to step on anyone's toes or make gratuitous changes, so let me know
> if I seem to be doing so.
> 
> And I'm not going to do the whole API on my own.  I'll do some parts.
> Please step in and fix up another part of it if you can.

+1.  Or, +NUMBER_OF_API_FUNCTIONS.  This will be very useful to those of us
trying to crack open a can of WC-NG without spilling stuff all over the floor.

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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