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

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> 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.

Well, a set of "tags" (not in XML sense, but in keyword sense) 
for each routine would be sufficient. This can be added easily, 
but the main problem is updating the many thousands of existing
identifiers.

>
> 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)

OK, that was totally chinese. I'll have to ask my chinese pillow to translate this.

Michael.