I remember being part of an "automatic way" when I was a graduate
student.
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:
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>> What I would really like is some automatic way to check if
>> the help is correct.
>>In theory it should be possible to do some things like
>>
>>-check if documention arguments match function arguments (trivial of course if
>>help is generated from the function, but not so otherwise).
>>
>>-check that arguments are all documented.
>>
>>-check that results usually correspond to documented results.
>>
>>-check that examples work.
>>
>>-check that "see also" references actually exist.
>>
>>-check if the system is user friendly enough that documentation can be
>>eliminated.
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