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Re: Guile docstrings---should Guile code be ANSI C compatible?
thi wrote:
>
> mstachow@alum.mit.edu writes:
>
> > I guess we still need to figure out a way to make the docstring editing
> > reasonable in the correct format, since they need to end up that way
> > eventually.
> >
> > I guess this plan sounds reasonable, but I am wary of pervasive code
> > changes that are slated to happen "right before release". It sounds like
> > a great way to introduce last-minute bugs.
>
> please find below some maintenance elisp that does docstring
> ANSIfication, taking into account that files are under version control.
> save it to maint.el at the top level, then from the shell you can say:
>
> emacs -batch -l maint.el -f batch-ansify-docstrings
>
> this step could be added to RELEASE, which should probably be completely
> codified so that one could do "M-x release-guile".
>
I think the goal now is to have this happen interactively while editing docstrings,
rather than in an all-at-once batch step.
- Maciej