apw There are some Tcl tools for doing javadoc like documentation using inline comments with special tags like tcldoc, autodoc and zdoc. The problem of all of these is, that they only support "normal" Tcl programs. What is missing is support for namespaces, itcl or itcl-ng and TclOO.
RZ Not true anymore. Have a look on doxygen+tcl
jima (2011-03-11) What about Ruff!?
I have started building a Tcl program called itcldoc.tcl based on a script level version of itcl-ng called itclng to use the parser available there for the itcl syntax and by adding some more parsing routines for "normal" Tcl code, namespace eval code and TclOO code. This program is used to parse all the variables, commons, methods, procs and comment blocks which are placed before that kind of code as well as references to variables and store them in dicts on a file level base. With that parsed information html pages could be built to show cross reference listings, descriptions of code or the source code with mixed in links for variables, procs, methods etc. when they are referenced or called in the code.
The itclng project can be found here [L1 ] and the command for building the dicts (itcldoc.tcl) and can be found here [L2 ]
Benefit for student: learn a lot about Tcl and its possibilities to parse different kind of source code as well as get experience in generating html code for web pages eventually using ATWF.
Benefit for community: provide an up-to-date tool for auto documentation (and maybe also a base for debugging tools based on these dicts?)