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authordrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-04-26 16:14:19 +0000
committerdrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-04-26 16:14:19 +0000
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+$DEBUG_RDOC = nil
+
##
-# :include: rdoc/README
+# = RDOC - Ruby Documentation System
+#
+# This package contains RDoc and RDoc::Markup. RDoc is an application that
+# produces documentation for one or more Ruby source files. We work similarly
+# to JavaDoc, parsing the source, and extracting the definition for classes,
+# modules, and methods (along with includes and requires). We associate with
+# these optional documentation contained in the immediately preceding comment
+# block, and then render the result using a pluggable output formatter.
+# RDoc::Markup is a library that converts plain text into various output
+# formats. The markup library is used to interpret the comment blocks that
+# RDoc uses to document methods, classes, and so on.
+#
+# == Roadmap
+#
+# * If you want to use RDoc to create documentation for your Ruby source files,
+# read on.
+# * If you want to include extensions written in C, see RDoc::C_Parser
+# * For information on the various markups available in comment blocks, see
+# RDoc::Markup.
+# * If you want to drive RDoc programatically, see RDoc::RDoc.
+# * If you want to use the library to format text blocks into HTML, have a look
+# at RDoc::Markup.
+# * If you want to try writing your own HTML output template, see
+# RDoc::Generator::HTML
+#
+# == Summary
+#
+# Once installed, you can create documentation using the 'rdoc' command
+# (the command is 'rdoc.bat' under Windows)
+#
+# % rdoc [options] [names...]
+#
+# Type "rdoc --help" for an up-to-date option summary.
+#
+# A typical use might be to generate documentation for a package of Ruby
+# source (such as rdoc itself).
+#
+# % rdoc
+#
+# This command generates documentation for all the Ruby and C source
+# files in and below the current directory. These will be stored in a
+# documentation tree starting in the subdirectory 'doc'.
+#
+# You can make this slightly more useful for your readers by having the
+# index page contain the documentation for the primary file. In our
+# case, we could type
+#
+# % rdoc --main rdoc.rb
+#
+# You'll find information on the various formatting tricks you can use
+# in comment blocks in the documentation this generates.
+#
+# RDoc uses file extensions to determine how to process each file. File names
+# ending +.rb+ and <tt>.rbw</tt> are assumed to be Ruby source. Files
+# ending +.c+ are parsed as C files. All other files are assumed to
+# contain just Markup-style markup (with or without leading '#' comment
+# markers). If directory names are passed to RDoc, they are scanned
+# recursively for C and Ruby source files only.
+#
+# = Markup
+#
+# For information on how to make lists, hyperlinks, etc. with RDoc, see
+# RDoc::Markup.
+#
+# Comment blocks can be written fairly naturally, either using '#' on
+# successive lines of the comment, or by including the comment in
+# an =begin/=end block. If you use the latter form, the =begin line must be
+# flagged with an RDoc tag:
+#
+# =begin rdoc
+# Documentation to be processed by RDoc.
+#
+# ...
+# =end
+#
+# RDoc stops processing comments if it finds a comment line containing
+# a <tt>--</tt>. This can be used to separate external from internal
+# comments, or to stop a comment being associated with a method, class, or
+# module. Commenting can be turned back on with a line that starts with a
+# <tt>++</tt>.
+#
+# ##
+# # Extract the age and calculate the date-of-birth.
+# #--
+# # FIXME: fails if the birthday falls on February 29th
+# #++
+# # The DOB is returned as a Time object.
+#
+# def get_dob(person)
+# # ...
+# end
+#
+# Names of classes, source files, and any method names containing an
+# underscore or preceded by a hash character are automatically hyperlinked
+# from comment text to their description.
+#
+# Method parameter lists are extracted and displayed with the method
+# description. If a method calls +yield+, then the parameters passed to yield
+# will also be displayed:
+#
+# def fred
+# ...
+# yield line, address
+#
+# This will get documented as:
+#
+# fred() { |line, address| ... }
+#
+# You can override this using a comment containing ':yields: ...' immediately
+# after the method definition
+#
+# def fred # :yields: index, position
+# # ...
+#
+# yield line, address
+#
+# which will get documented as
+#
+# fred() { |index, position| ... }
+#
+# +:yields:+ is an example of a documentation directive. These appear
+# immediately after the start of the document element they are modifying.
+#
+# == Directives
+#
+# [+:nodoc:+ / +:nodoc:+ all]
+# Don't include this element in the documentation. For classes
+# and modules, the methods, aliases, constants, and attributes
+# directly within the affected class or module will also be
+# omitted. By default, though, modules and classes within that
+# class of module _will_ be documented. This is turned off by
+# adding the +all+ modifier.
+#
+# module MyModule # :nodoc:
+# class Input
+# end
+# end
+#
+# module OtherModule # :nodoc: all
+# class Output
+# end
+# end
+#
+# In the above code, only class +MyModule::Input+ will be documented.
+# :nodoc: is global across all files the class or module appears in, so use
+# :stopdoc:/:startdoc: to only omit documentation for a particular set of
+# methods, etc.
+#
+# [+:doc:+]
+# Force a method or attribute to be documented even if it wouldn't otherwise
+# be. Useful if, for example, you want to include documentation of a
+# particular private method.
+#
+# [+:notnew:+]
+# Only applicable to the +initialize+ instance method. Normally RDoc
+# assumes that the documentation and parameters for #initialize are
+# actually for the ::new method, and so fakes out a ::new for the class.
+# The :notnew: modifier stops this. Remember that #initialize is protected,
+# so you won't see the documentation unless you use the -a command line
+# option.
+#
+# Comment blocks can contain other directives:
+#
+# [<tt>:section: title</tt>]
+# Starts a new section in the output. The title following +:section:+ is
+# used as the section heading, and the remainder of the comment containing
+# the section is used as introductory text. Subsequent methods, aliases,
+# attributes, and classes will be documented in this section. A :section:
+# comment block may have one or more lines before the :section: directive.
+# These will be removed, and any identical lines at the end of the block are
+# also removed. This allows you to add visual cues such as:
+#
+# # ----------------------------------------
+# # :section: My Section
+# # This is the section that I wrote.
+# # See it glisten in the noon-day sun.
+# # ----------------------------------------
+#
+# [+:call-seq:+]
+# Lines up to the next blank line in the comment are treated as the method's
+# calling sequence, overriding the default parsing of method parameters and
+# yield arguments.
+#
+# [+:include:+ _filename_]
+# \Include the contents of the named file at this point. The file will be
+# searched for in the directories listed by the +--include+ option, or in
+# the current directory by default. The contents of the file will be
+# shifted to have the same indentation as the ':' at the start of the
+# :include: directive.
+#
+# [+:title:+ _text_]
+# Sets the title for the document. Equivalent to the <tt>--title</tt>
+# command line parameter. (The command line parameter overrides any :title:
+# directive in the source).
+#
+# [+:enddoc:+]
+# Document nothing further at the current level.
+#
+# [+:main:+ _name_]
+# Equivalent to the <tt>--main</tt> command line parameter.
+#
+# [+:stopdoc:+ / +:startdoc:+]
+# Stop and start adding new documentation elements to the current container.
+# For example, if a class has a number of constants that you don't want to
+# document, put a +:stopdoc:+ before the first, and a +:startdoc:+ after the
+# last. If you don't specifiy a +:startdoc:+ by the end of the container,
+# disables documentation for the entire class or module.
+#
+# = Other stuff
+#
+# RDoc is currently being maintained by Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
+#
+# Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> is the original author of RDoc.
+#
+# == Credits
+#
+# * The Ruby parser in rdoc/parse.rb is based heavily on the outstanding
+# work of Keiju ISHITSUKA of Nippon Rational Inc, who produced the Ruby
+# parser for irb and the rtags package.
+#
+# * Code to diagram classes and modules was written by Sergey A Yanovitsky
+# (Jah) of Enticla.
+#
+# * Charset patch from MoonWolf.
+#
+# * Rich Kilmer wrote the kilmer.rb output template.
+#
+# * Dan Brickley led the design of the RDF format.
+#
+# == License
+#
+# RDoc is Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers. It
+# is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified
+# in the README file of the Ruby distribution.
+#
+# == Warranty
+#
+# This software is provided "as is" and without any express or implied
+# warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of
+# merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose.
module RDoc