I like Lex's suggestion, but would reccomend that it be constructed along lines where at some future date one could attach arbitrary "metadata" ( objects ) to some reasonable set of program structures, not only within the methods but at higher levels as well. Basically, I am asking only that you don't build into such code the notion that we are only dealing with text- let it be something a bit more abstract, so that we are not limited in the future to strictly textual commentary.
- les
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:51:11 -0500, Les Tyrrell tyrrell@canis.uiuc.edu wrote:
I like Lex's suggestion, but would reccomend that it be constructed along lines where at some future date one could attach arbitrary "metadata" ( objects ) to some reasonable set of program structures, not only within the methods but at higher levels as well. Basically, I am asking only that you don't build into such code the notion that we are only dealing with text- let it be something a bit more abstract, so that we are not limited in the future to strictly textual commentary.
This is something we talked about a lot at Interval. The idea was to use the web browser as the text view for viewing/editing code, and being able to have embedded objects and links that do stuff like cross-referencing, or are pointers to more complete documentation.
Later, Jon
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