funcdef

funcdef — A function (subroutine) name and its return type

Synopsis

Content Model

funcdef ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- alt
- anchor
- annotation
- biblioref
- function
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- inlinemediaobject
- link
- olink
- phrase (db._phrase)
- remark
- replaceable
- subscript
- superscript
- type
- xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A FuncDef contains the name of a programming language function, and its return type.

Within the FuncDef, the function name is identified with Function, and the rest of the content is assumed to be the return type.

In the following definition, max is the name of the function and int is the return type:


<funcdef>int <function>max</function></funcdef>

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. For a complete description of the processing expecations, see FuncSynopsis.

Parents

These elements contain funcdef: funcprototype.

Children

The following elements occur in funcdef: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, function, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, type, xref.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example funcdef</title>

<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>rand</function></funcdef>
  <void/>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>

</article>

int rand();

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/31 12:31:54 $.


formalpara		funcparams