Re: IDL files
Jayakumar Muthukumarasamy ([email protected])
Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:23:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> JK,
>
> More on the manual stuff.
>
> I edited idl.idl in the isi masterm account so that the comments are in the
> format that i2mif expects. They were almost right but I did the following
> changes:
>
> //. on a line by itself generates a line break, You don't want those unless
> you really want a line break.
>
> The //. comments for an interface should appear after the interface statement,
> not immediately below the //- that introduces the interface (see file).
>
> The }; that close a block have to appear at the beginning of the line. I know
> this makes it a bit ugly because you have the module statement at the top, but
> otherwise, the i2mif generates produces the } to the output.
>
> i2mif does not expand macros. However, you can document each line to say what
> it defines.
>
> Take a look at the file. A new idl.maker file is there.
>
> More substantive comments on the content later.
>
Pedro,
The i2mif program is very dumb & rigid. If we format the IDL file as
i2mif likes it, the IDL file becomes quite unreadable. I am very picky about
the way comments are laid out in a file and I am finding it difficult
to cope with i2mif.
-jk