We need to improve on that level but this requires to fix the formatter and we do not cycle for that.
Now we would love that.
Guys have been working on a mark down parser so that class comments and help can be optional displayed nicely.
Now the first thing is to write class and methods comments.
> Hello all,
>
> having a very short memory I need to write quite a lot of comments. I loved
> the way to do this in Haskell, where you essentially write a LaTeX document
> which happens to contains some code snippets and which still is an executable
> program.
So in Smalltalk you can write full expressions in comments and class example methods.
>
> In squeak I used to write "pretty" class comments, using sections with titles
> in bold fonts and hypertext links where another class or method was referenced
> in the text.
>
> In Pharo and in the latest squeaks this no longer seems to work. Bold fond
> silently disappears when saving the comment, hypertext seems to be gone
> entirely in Pharo.
>
> Comments in methods are moved aound by the configurable formatter, i.e. I
> found no way to place comments BETWEEN statements.
>
> Now I certaninly don't want to complain. But I would be happy if someone could
> give me some advice on how to comment code in a stylish way.
>
> --
> Martin
>