On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:53:59PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 21:47:51 UTC, Tony wrote: > > What is the situation in which the identifier StdDoc is set? > > When the phobos website is being compiled, its own makefile sets that. > > It is basically a hack for website display.
Yes, it's a hack to make the website display something different from what ddoc would actually generate from the real code. There are a few cases where this is needed, e.g., to generate docs for Windows-specific modules, since the website script is run on Posix and the Windows APIs would not be compiled at all, leading to empty docs. T -- It's amazing how careful choice of punctuation can leave you hanging: