Index: DOCS/tech/code-documentation.txt
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diff -u -r1.2 code-documentation.txt
--- DOCS/tech/code-documentation.txt	10 Sep 2004 10:15:50 -0000	1.2
+++ DOCS/tech/code-documentation.txt	3 Mar 2005 12:02:45 -0000
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@
 
 /* Neither is this. */
 
+Doxygen comments should come before the definition:
+
+/** description */
+int a_variable;
+
+However, you can use '<' to describe things AFTER they are defined, like this:
+
+int some_var; ///< description
+#define foo(x) (x + 2) /**< returns x plus 2 */
+
 There are a couple of special tags for doxygen:
 
 \brief <one line text>