RE: [PATCH 5.5.63] Autogenerate API docs, define Perl API

[Fisher Mark <fisherm@tce.com>]

Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 06:38:46 PST, "Benjamin Stuhl" wrote:
> >From: Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
> >>Do you actually need the =for ?? Why not just the usual 
> =head =item etc.
> >>Or do you want to translate it differently ?
> 
> A formatter that understands what the flags mean may emit a more
> readable prototype, describe the other attributes of the function, &c.

A separate definition makes this more generally amenable to automatic
processing.  It would be nice if Verity's SEARCH'97 (commercial search
engine) could automatically parse the functions out of a Perl file, for
example.
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Mark Leighton Fisher            fisherm@tce.com
Thomson Consumer Electronics    Indianapolis IN
"Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"

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