On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:21:51 -0800
Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 01:41 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> > Clever, but due to the "hidden" space it also increases the frustration
> > factor
> > for people trying to find out "why is this accepted as a signature and not
> > this".
> >
> > I don't think a well-chosen visible separator is worse off, such as "--\n".
>
> I could live with that. To be explicit: the signature would then be of
> the form
>
> <name-of-function(...)\n--\n
>
> The scanning function would look for "<name-of-function>(" at the
> front. If it found it it'd scan forwards in the docstring for
> ")\n--\n". If it found *that*, then it would declare success.
This would have to be checked for layout regressions. If the docstring
is formatted using a ReST-to-HTML converter, what will be the effect?
Regards
Antoine.
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