On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that having Pillar in comments is definitely the way to go.
>
> In:
>
> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/writing-pillar-books-with-the-gtinspector
>
> I show also an extension that renders comments with PIllar highlighting.
> This is working now in an inspector, but the same principle can be applied
> to other browsers.
>

Yes, that's what I tried in the past.
The ability to associate graphics explaining structures is really useful
there.

Phil

>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Christophe Demarey <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 22 sept. 2015 à 07:49, [email protected] a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Le 22 sept. 2015 07:40, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > > On 21 Sep 2015, at 23:53, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I think that having metadata (style) language and data (source code)
>> mixed together is a bad idea.
>> > > I never like the ]lang[ tag because it is a huge hack. It does not
>> even exist in the Smalltalk syntax!!!
>> > > We save code that the parser cannot parse. What we fun idea.
>> > > So people are bashing for backward compatibility and we remove a bad
>> way to encode
>> > > metadata then suddenly it looks like we were doing something bad.
>> > >
>> > > Stef
>> >
>> > I am with Stef, it is a silly idea to mix the two. Nobody uses this in
>> Pharo. Cleaning up means simplifying too.
>>
>> In the code no. But in the comments, that would be good to have back. In
>> color form. As we can write pillar class comments, can't we render them ?
>> Moose as an editor/viewer for pillar files
>>
>>
>> Yes, it is where we want to go: use Pillar for styled comments.
>> Once we have that, we can remove Text styling from source code / comments.
>>
>>
>
>
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>
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