Re: doc snarfing does not work with Sun Forte preprocessor

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

    Rob> Also (and let me preface this by saying that I don't really
    Rob> know much about the current doc-snarf system) has there been
    Rob> any discussion about changing the C code so that the
    Rob> documentation is defined by a C call that at guile runtime
    Rob> crams all the documentation into a common location?  It seems
    Rob> like it might be possible to do this so that dumping the
    Rob> docstrings could then be as simple as

    Rob>   guile -e \ '(use-modules (ice-9 docdumper)) (for-each
    Rob> ... (docstring-table))'

    Rob> or similar.

Yes.  I think is a pretty attractive option.  The only argument
against it, I think, is that it increases the size of libguile.

    Rob> (Again, I'm not sure this addresses the current problem,
    Rob> since I don't fully understand the current state.)

It does address the current problem, since the docstring would then
need to be grokked only by the C compiler.

        Neil