Go modules have a v2+ problem

Re:Go modules have a v2+ problem by gostsamo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:09AM (#24433033)

Isn't emacs the first to do it? I have the vague memory of it self-advertising as self-documenting.

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Re:Go modules have a v2+ problem by eternalban on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:59PM (#24435450)

I don’t know about emacs but your comment prompted a search for Smalltalk-80 docs:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

On page 309 the `Metaclass Protocol` is defined. This class has a property “comment” [with value semantic of] ‘commentString’. So possibly they got it from Smalltalk. Don’t know.

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Re:Go modules have a v2+ problem by pjmlp on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:26AM (#24439728)

If you search the book you will find samples like:

    sum: xValue with: yValue
      "sums two values"
      ^ xValue + yValue

That is where commentString gets used.

Several Lisp variants also have a similar approach.

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Re:Go modules have a v2+ problem by eternalban on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:27AM (#24443826)

I fiddled around with SmalltalkAgents back in the day. Don’t remember how the doc was surfaced though.

This product probably deserves its own hn post: http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.04/Sm...

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Re:Go modules have a v2+ problem by pjmlp on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:31AM (#24450333)

Indeed, it looks quite interesting

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