[Xotcl] using _at_, metadata, ... without xodoc

From: Catherine Letondal <letondal_at_pasteur.fr>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:50:08 +0100

Hi,

I have a question about documentation mechanisms in XOtcl. I would
like to use introspection for documenting my application, but not
for generating HTML files. As far as I have understood:

        - metadata is deprecated (http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/doc/tutorial.html#meta-data)

        - _at_ object is a kind of /dev/null which has to be redefined somehow

        - xodoc does this but for HTML documentation

So my question is: how do I use or not use _at_ for generating some kind of
metadata, i.e data which can be found (and changed by the user if needed) during
the application? Why is metadata deprecated?

Thanks in advance!

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Catherine Letondal -- Pasteur Institute Computing Center