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Re: Interesting quirk in IDLdoc (3.5.0) [message #81611 is a reply to message #81610]

Fri, 05 October 2012 16:50

Michael Galloy
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On 10/5/12 2:20 PM, tom.grydeland@gmail.com wrote:
> I spent a couple of hours this friday evening tracking down why all my RST comments in one file disappeared, and I could not see anything wrong with my comments.
>
> I managed to whittle it down to this, the smallest case that reproduces the behaviour.
> IDL has no problem with the extra $ after 'begin', but it seems to upset IDLdoc tremedously.
>
> ; ------------------ >8 -----------
> ;+
> ; One description
> ;-
> pro one
> if 1 then begin $ ; remove the dollar on this line to restore sanity
> print, "hello, "
> endif
> end
>
> ;+
> ; This description (and everything from here on) disappears
> ;-
> pro two
> print, " world!"
> end
>

IDLdoc counts begin/end's and that $ probably confused it. Not sure why
the TWO routine is found, but the header is not. Will have to take a
look at it.

Mike
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