Re: kawa goals

[Jamison Hope <jrh at theptrgroup dot com>]

On Oct 16, 2010, at 3:29 AM, Per Bothner wrote:

> On 10/14/2010 03:24 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:
>
> > In general, make Kawa more "friendly", e.g. add doc-strings, make it
> > easy to find the source file of functions, add an object inspector  
> > etc.
>
> I think many of these are IDE issues, though I realize traditionally
> IDE's in Lisp have depended on eval and repl.  Thus I don't think
> old-fashioned docstrings (in the sense of a run-time property)
> is really the right thing.  Better an annotation (or a separate
> resource file), so the strings can be found either at compile
> time *or* at run-time.


I think that's what I was describing, too. Maybe in the source file it  
would look like a traditional docstring, but the compiler would  
transform it into an Annotation. (I much prefer the idea of an  
Annotation over a separate resource file -- separate files are harder  
to keep synchronized, and I would like to see Annotation support  
anyway.)

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