From e0d1f79e0689f0236f8d337f0e34951e691833eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lefteris Karapetsas <lefteris@refu.co>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:15:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Absence of tag in Natspec is now considered @notice

---
 InterfaceHandler.cpp | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/InterfaceHandler.cpp b/InterfaceHandler.cpp
index 4c7ae5f45..1adce8cb8 100644
--- a/InterfaceHandler.cpp
+++ b/InterfaceHandler.cpp
@@ -351,9 +351,15 @@ void InterfaceHandler::parseDocString(std::string const& _string, CommentOwner _
 			currPos = appendDocTag(currPos, end, _owner);
 		else if (currPos != end)
 		{
-			if (nlPos == end) //end of text
+			// if it begins without a tag then consider it as @notice
+			if (currPos == _string.begin())
+			{
+				currPos = parseDocTag(currPos, end, "notice", CommentOwner::FUNCTION);
+				continue;
+			}
+			else if (nlPos == end) //end of text
 				return;
-			// else skip the line if a newline was found
+			// else skip the line if a newline was found and we get here
 			currPos = nlPos + 1;
 		}
 	}