Re: Meaning of // {{{

teo@gecadsoftware.com wrote: > > 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 Oops... I'm sure I have read somewhere that the {{{ ... ok, wrong :) > 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. > :-? AFAIK PHPDoc don't need that. For example I could see the in-line doc for DB.php wich doesn't have this tags. So the question is still on the air: do we really need this tags? Tomas V.V.Cox