[Doc-SIG] [ANNOUNCE] SantisimaInquisicion

Sean McGrath sean@digitome.com
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:52:28 +0000


[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]
>
>It happens that TeX documents are the easiest structure to represent
>things, apart from raw .txt  A basically TeX markup is just 
>the easiest markup. 
>
Completely subjective and unsubstantiated statements!

>> 
>>   def foo():
>>      print 'a'
>
>This example is too simple , it gots almost no info at all , 
>perhaps : \indexbasicdeffunction
>(\index{basic}\index{def}\index{function} )
>after doing this , anyone searching  for basic things, or for
>definitions of for functions may find the piece of code you've done,
>your WORK is PROFITABLE now. That piece of CODE IS VALUABLE for 
>the rest of community.

In my opinion, there is *NO CHANCE* that any developer would
voluntarily add th index stuff in this example isn't it
redundant? A text parsing tool that knows the syntax of
Python can work out that foo is a function. There is no need
for a programmer to spell it out in a second
syntactic form right?