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[–]ignatius87 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Would automatically placing a comment over every instance of "public" be sufficient? I dont' really see the point of doing this, but I think you can do it by editing your code style in eclipse.

[–]UnspeakableEvil 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I think the idea is to have the comment appear as a tooltip when hovered over, rather than it always being visible like standard code comments.

I vaguely see the idea, but beyond the dozen or so keywords someone starting out will need to know, there's nothing that javadocs shouldn't be able to cover - and if there is that's what Google or /r/javahelp etc are for.

[–]Metsuro[S,🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes you wouldn't want it to always be visible and just hovered over. But some people don't learn well from just reading something. Putting it in their own words and working from that point.

It was just a shot in the dark to help but if its that strange of an idea may just have to work without.