Hi Jim,
 

> I see that as simply a marker that would be stripped by the parser. 
>
I mean, we're not going to leave the trailing colons in the names either, 
> true? :) 
>

What trailing colons do you mean?

To me, it is a way for a parser to quickly rip through a file looking for 
> just the strings it cares about, and something like /@([a-z]+):/i (I 
> haven't tested that regex :) ),
>

To me, with a doc-tid, we're looking at a plain tiddler definition, no 
special parsing, except for the function head that follows it, to get both 
the title and the arguments and that's it. We already get those arguments 
in the right order; all we need is to remove those commas. No need for any 
regexp voodoo in the actual doc-tid. As for the function title, we may need 
to handle / replace some namespace prefix for a file, e.g. *module.exports* 
is hardly what we want, so perhaps a file could start with...

//doc _namespace=$tw.utils

...and then keep adding the bit behind the last dot in that function title 
to construct the function title. If ever necessary, the _namespace field 
could be manually set for each individual doc-tid.

I can see where modules would need some "documentation" fields as well as 
> normal "TiddlyWiki" fields, and was trying to namespace the documentation 
> fields basically, so that we could have a something like:
>

True, with my first proposal above, if we had an argument called *title* or 
*type* we had a bit of a problem: We sure can't set a *title* or *type* 
field without breaking TiddlyWiki's representation. The simplest workaround 
would indeed be to prefix all fields. How about underscore, e.g. *_type*?

So, to putting it all together once more...

/*doc

_summary: a short summary of what this function does
_namespace: $tw.utils <should be set on a file basis instead of per doc-tid>
_function: <should be automatically parsed from the function head!>
_arguments: node, name, defaultValue <should be automatically parsed from 
the function head!>
_node: (type of node) description of node
_name: (type of name) description of name
_value: (type of defaultValue) description of defaultValue
_return: (type of return value) description of return value
title: <should be automatic via rules, perhaps with an option to declare 
and thus overrule>
tags: <depending on well defined tagging rules>
type: text/markdown

additional information, if there needs to be any, e.g. cross-references 
with other functions

## Example
A common example of how to use this function, if useful.

*/

Stripping the above down to the minimum, assuming the rest was parsed from 
the function head or otherwise defined via defaults, or not necessary...

/*doc

_summary: this function does yada
_node: (node) the [[node]] bla
_name: (string) blip name blup
_value: (number) the bleep value
_return: (boolean) true: foo / false: bar
tags: utils
*/

Best wishes, Tobias.

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