Re: short's shortcomings

[email protected] wrote:

>Hi Frank, all,
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>>Sorry, but I could not resist that subject.
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>8-)
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>>A mechanism for associating a replacement descriptive comment when
>>features are renamed would add to the usefulness of "short"
>>documentation.
>>Could you consider such a capability.
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>I see only one way to do this: add a comment to the rename clause...
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>class    CLOCK
>inherit
>   COUNTER
>      rename
>         value as time -- the time o'clock
>      export {NONE}  all;
>             {ANY}  time;
>             {CLOCK_CONTROLLER}  increment
>      end
>end
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>... then short should display
>time: INTEGER -- the time o'clock
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An other way may be to consider the comment modification as a feature 
redefinition case. Then, redefine should be used and the new comment 
will be the printed one (already implemented this way).

Here, you change the feature name, but what about changing the comment 
without changing the feature name?

Best regards,

-- 
Philippe Ribet



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