Re: COMMENT on function's arguments

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Vlad Arkhipov <arhipov(at)dc(dot)baikal(dot)ru> wrote:
> Does it make sense to have a comment on function's arguments? Of course it
> is possible to include these comments in a function's comment, but may be
> better to have them in more formalized way like comments on columns of a
> table. IDEs may use this information when providing hints for a function
> like in other languages.

This would be somewhat tricky, because our COMMENT support assumes
that the object upon which we're commenting has an ObjectAddress, and
individual arguments to a function don't, although perhaps the
sub-object-id stuff that we currently use to handle comments on table
columns could be extended to handle this case. I guess I wouldn't
object to a well-done patch that made this work, but creating such a
patch seems likely to be tricky, owing to the fact that there's
nothing in the system that thinks of the individual arguments to a
function as separate objects at present.

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