This is great, thank you very much!
El domingo, 2 de agosto de 2015, 14:22:03 (UTC-5), Mike Innes escribió: > > Hi All, > > As of #11943 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11943>, Julia uses > the shiny new doc system to provide help for functions in the REPL. > Previously, docstrings were stored in ReStructured text files > <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/doc/stdlib> as part of > the manual, but now all docstrings are kept in Base > <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/docs/helpdb.jl> and > the rst docs are automatically generated. > > What this means immediately is that any updates to Base docstrings must > happen in the helpdb.jl file > <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/docs/helpdb.jl>, as > opposed to the RST docs. Note that it's still fine to edit the main body of > the manual; only function docstrings, which can be identified by the `.. > function::` syntax, are affected by this change. > > Right now everything is in one big file, but we'd like to move the > docstrings to appropriate places in Base and convert them to Markdown. > We'll need some help with that, as there are a *lot* of docstrings, but > when we're ready we'll send out a call for help so that people can get > involved. > > There's still a lot of work to do, but I think this will be a big step > forward for documentation in Julia. > > – Mike >
