Re: Meaning of // {{{
| From: | teo at gecadsoftware dot com | Date: | Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:47:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Meaning of // {{{ | ||
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Hi Tomas!
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:
> Martin Jansen wrote:
> >
> > What do the "// {{{ <functionname>" in most of the PEAR
> > files stand for?
> >
> > I've also used them in the code I commited to PEAR but
> > never really knew what they were good for (I suppose
> > they are pretty important for some of you ;-).
> >
>
> I guess it's Xemacs stuff for quick access to functions (you know
> Ctrl+Meta+Shift+AltGr+& will move the cursor to the next function ;)
>
:)) *grin* nope, I would still be happy then to know something like that
exists
AFAIK that was used in the C sources of PHP to delimit documentation, and I
guess it's also used in the PHP sources for the same reason, though a Javadoc
style is more fancy and easy to parse IMO.
-- teodor