Roman Kantor wrote:
> Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
>> Duncan Gibson wrote:
>>
>>> 1. the CMP/Coding Standards rules say that the doxygen comments should
>>>    all go into the header files.
>>
>> From: <http://www.fltk.org/cmp.php#SOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT_PRACTICES>
>>
>> "Doxygen comments are placed in the header file for the class comments 
>> and any inline methods, while non-inline methods should have their 
>> comments placed in the corresponding source file."
> 
> I actually prefer the doxygen doc within the headers too as it is easier 
> for a programmer to look for the API doc to the header where particular 
> function (class, ...) is dectlader. Not sure why we need to distinguish 
> between inline and non-inline functions for placement of doxygen 
> comments...

The original idea was that the Doxygen comments would stay with the
code, which (hopefully) would keep them more up-to-date than if they
were only in the headers...

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