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Re: IDL Comments [message #39054]

Fri, 09 April 2004 11:17

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:32:07 -0500, Michael Wallace wrote:

> This might be a dumb question, but my curiosity has gotten the best of
> me. Why is it that the main comment block in RSI's IDL code (as well as
> David's) always begins with ';+' ? Is the '+' on the end some sort of
> marker RSI uses to indicate what comments to use when they crank out new
> documentation?

IDLWAVE uses the delimiters to provide context sensitive help in
routine headers. If the header follows normal conventions, the help
entries for individual keywords etc. can be visited.

JD

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		Re: IDL Comments By: JD Smith on Fri, 09 April 2004 11:17
		Re: IDL Comments By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 08 April 2004 12:01
		Re: IDL Comments By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 April 2004 11:38
		Re: IDL Comments By: mperrin+news on Thu, 08 April 2004 11:35
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