[fpc-pascal] Permuted index (KWIC) of function descriptions

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Jan 26 14:56:30 CET 2011


In our previous episode, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be said:
> > I'm sure that somebody familiar with XML (which I'm afraid doesn't include 
> > me) could knock out something half-way decent in a few minutes.
> >
> > Or is the problem actually XML in this case, i.e. it's obvious that we want 
> > to extract the short description but that leaves an uncertain context?
> 
> The short description is not a problem. But the "Returns" "Deletes" "Reduces"
> etc ?

IMHO that is overkill. It only works comprehensively for a handful routines.

Categorizing routines, with subcategs if need be will be trouble enough,
specially if you want to do it future proof (and also be able to flag the static
method approach that Delphi current favours)



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