Docstrings considered too complicated

[Roy Smith]

In article <eq4l57-okf2.ln1 at ozzie.tundraware.com>,
 Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 2/24/2010 2:23 PM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > a company that works with my company writes a lot of of their code in
> > Python (lucky jerks). I've seen their code and it basically looks like
> > this:
> > 
> > """Function that does stuff"""
> > def doStuff():
> >     while not wise(up):
> >         yield scorn
> > 
> > Now my question is this: How do I kill these people without the
> > authorities thinking they didn't deserve it?
> > 
> > /W
> > 
> 
> Reminiscent of:
> 
> mov  AX,BX               ; Move the contents of BX into AX
> 
> And, yes, I've actually seen that as well as:
> 
> ; This is a comment

OK, if we're going to do this, how about this one, that I just found 
yesterday in some production C++ code.  I'm so glad somebody took the time 
to explain to me what p7 through p9 are.  I never would have figured it out 
otherwise.

/**
 * Tracing facility. Writes the message to the specified output stream.
 * If output stream is NULL, writes the message to the process log.
 *
 * @param  msg_id  The message id to use for lookup.
 * @param  ostr    The output stream.
 * @param  p1      The first substition parameter.
 * @param  p2      The second substition parameter.
 * @param  p3      The third substition parameter.
 * @param  p4      The fourth substition parameter.
 * @param  p5      The fifth substition parameter.
 * @param  p6      The sixth substition parameter.
 * @param  p7      The seventh substition parameter.
 * @param  p8      The eigth substition parameter.
 * @param  p9      The ninth substition parameter.
*/