[Developers] Request documentation help

[dave fournier]

On 14-02-12 12:29 PM, John Sibert wrote:

OK, that's nice.

It got changed from mp to pad which is fine with me.

Next might be (if it is not already there) to  do bounds checking. At 
present my mp stuff
will quit if you try something like

   call   pad(M,5)

in the debugger and 5 is an invalid index,

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> John Sibert
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> On 02/12/2014 07:55 AM, dave fournier wrote:
>> On 14-02-10 10:39 AM, Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps an example is needed.
>>
>> At the Seattle  workshop (and at the Honolulu workshop and at ...)
>> I showed how you could define a set of print functions call mp() 
>> (shorter is better for names here,
>> so that gdb users (included ddd) could use a command like
>>
>>    call mp(M)
>>
>> to print out say a vector or matrix in the debugger. Extend this to
>>
>>     call mpc(M,4)
>>
>> to  print out the 4'th column of a matrix M.
>>
>> all this could be extended to all types in an intuitive manner etc.
>>
>> To my knowledge nothing has been done with this.  I think it is a 
>> more useful idea than
>> puking out vast amounts of mindless documentation.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I wasn't at the most recent Developer's workshop in Reykjavik, but 
>>> the report from that workshop 
>>> http://www.admb-project.org/developers/workshop/reykjavik-2013/meeting-report-1 
>>> seems relevant to this discussion. It says "Ongoing improvement of 
>>> ADMB documentation has been a long-standing priority area of the 
>>> ADMB project" (page 9), and lists "Add new Doxygen comments" among 
>>> the "Priorities for Documentation" along with things like "Update 
>>> manuals" and clean up the website (page 12).
>>>
>>> If the ADMB Developer's Workshop Report isn't a good source for 
>>> learning about the ADMB Projects's priorities, what is?
>>> -Ian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:07 PM, John Sibert <sibert at hawaii.edu 
>>> <mailto:sibert at hawaii.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I couldn't agree more. Documenting every function in every source
>>>     file would be a tragic waste of time and would not lead to a
>>>     better user experience. The emphasis on documentation may come
>>>     from some nameless NOAA bureaucrat ignorant of the fact that
>>>     there is already a lot API and other documentation. The ADMB API
>>>     documentation
>>>     (http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/api/index.html) has a
>>>     nicely indexed list of commonly used functions on the "Function
>>>     Reference" tab. Classes and global functions are also indexed,
>>>     and there is a Search box.
>>>
>>>     The documentation seems to grow as more people contribute. All of
>>>     the contributed libraries are well documented. Steve Martel and
>>>     others have added Dox. Johnoel was trying to encourage other
>>>     developers to contribute as well. I tend to add Doxygen stuff
>>>     when a question pops up in an email or  when I get curious about
>>>     how something actually works. I would encourage others to do the
>>>     same.
>>>
>>>
>>>     John Sibert
>>>     Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
>>>     University of Hawaii at Manoa
>>>     Honolulu HI (GMT-10)
>>>     808-294-3842 <tel:808-294-3842>
>>>
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>>>     On 02/07/2014 06:13 PM, dave fournier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Well I know a bit about a lot of functions, but this seems
>>>         like make work to me.
>>>
>>>         Could you give me an example of a function for which more
>>>         documentation would
>>>         suddenly make the sun shine?
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