Re: private, protected and public scope

[David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:41:06PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> gtkdoc supports scope comments (/*< private >*/) in structs (and now enums too)
> to tailor what needs to be documented and what should appear in the docs. In the
> past days I did a large refactoring to better track missing and unused
> field/member/value docs. Now I found some examples that use "/*< protected >*/
> to mark up some content as public for subclasses. What do we do with that in the
> docs? Right now it is treated like private (and thus hidden). In the cases where
> I found it, the fields where documented and thus one now gets warnings about
> unused doc-strings.
> 
> Any opinions?

Put them to the documentation and mark as protected (not sure how), i.e.
only for subclassing.  Not that it will stop people using them for other
purposes but the intent will be clear.

Yeti