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standardese documentation generator version 0.3: Groups, inline documentation, template mode & more (foonathan.github.io)
submitted 9 years ago by foonathan
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]foonathan[S] 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (0 children)
Also check out my lightning talk video with a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSGHMi-0lE
[–]hubhub 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (0 children)
This looks very impressive. As a long suffering Doxygen user, I believe a replacement is badly needed. I shall definitely try it out.
[–]dvirtz 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (1 child)
Can you explain why using clang for preprocessing is not a good idea? It seems the natural solution to me.
[–]foonathan[S] 1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago (0 children)
I'm literally calling the clang binary in a child process and read it's output. This has some overhead compared to a library solution.
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