[Doxygen-develop] Doxygen support for the programming language MuPAD

[Nicolas M. T. <nt...@us...>]

        Dear doxygen developers,

I am currently looking for a tool for documenting a library written in
the MuPAD language (this is a computer algebra system, similar to
maple). Doxygen seems to do pretty much all I need!

So here is my question: how difficult is it to add support in doxygen
for new programming languages ?

I guess I would basicaly need to write a parser description in
src/mupad.ll starting with the java.ll example. Any comments, details,
descriptions of pitfall, or even better a basic template for such a
parser would be warmly welcome. See below for a rather complete
example of MuPAD code with the corresponding C++ code.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
                                                Nicolas

References:
 - mupad-combinat.sourceforge.net
 - www.mupad.de

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/**
    A domain for partitions
**/
domain combinat::partitions

    // this declares factorial as a public method
    interface := { hold(factorial) };

    /// the factorial function
    factorial :=
    proc(n: DOM_INT) : DOM_INT
    begin
        if n=0 then
            1
        else
            n*dom::factorial(n-1);
        end_if;
    end_proc;

    ...

begin
end_domain

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/**
    A class for partitions
**/
class combinat::partitions {

  public:

    /// the factorial function
    int
    factorial(int n) {
        if (n==0) {
            return(1);
        else {
            return(factorial(n-1));
        }
    }

  private:
    ...
}
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