[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-hackers-list] Re: Patch for mcs

[Gaurav Vaish]

> Oh, np, I did't :)

  Great to note that. :-)

> According to the C# /** ... */ rule, heading '*' characters in
> each comment line must be removed when (and only when) it
> starts with spaces and '*'. It is C# specific rule. (well, mcs
> is C# compiler ;-)

   Ok. Agree to it. But can I assume that you'd be doing this in
cs-tokenizer.cs? If so, don't worry... I'll take care of it for my
needs. :-)

> before a get accessor is invalid (CS1587 warning will be raised):

   Fully accepted and acknowledged.

> So, I guess you cannot expect any arbitrary documentation grammar
> to conform to C# documentation/tokenization rules.

   Ditto as my previous comment.

> Please clarify; do you actually have working functionality? If not,
> why do you need to commit your changes to CVS before you finish
> the actual document generation functionality?

   Ok... the status right now is that my tool cannot generate comments
as of now. It can read comments (by patching cs-parser.jay,
cs-tokenizer.cs, decl.cs etc), understand some of them but cannot
generate HTML files right now.

   Two parts to it: One the changes needed in mcs to expose
raw-comments. Second, generating documentation (HTML, chm or blah).
The changes that I made to mcs belonged to mcs-1.1 (.Net 1.1) and now
C# language itself has changed a lot with partial classes etc.

   It gave me a tough time patching new mcs-2.0 for my mcsdoc.
Tomorrow, I may have another mcs-3.0 and all that pain. So, I just
needed raw doc/comments.



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Gaurav Vaish
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