Have a look at: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13006
I'm not sure it has been backported yet to 0.4 On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 14:55, andrew cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > gah, sorry. linked to the wrong macro package. i don't think this is > particularly relevant, but it should have been > https://github.com/andrewcooke/AutoHashEquals.jl > > On Saturday, 31 October 2015 10:53:39 UTC-3, andrew cooke wrote: >> >> >> I want to use the (relatively?) new docstrings, but have data structures >> that look like: >> >> """This is MyType.""" >> @auto_hash_equals type MyType >> attribute::Something >> end >> >> where the macro comes from >> https://github.com/andrewcooke/AutoTypeParameters.jl >> >> unfortunately, this gives the error: LoadError: invalid doc expression (it >> seems that the docstring is being "applied" to the macro call, not the data >> type). >> >> and it's not clear to me what the best solution is. should i modify my >> macros so that they can take a string, and then move the macro to before >> the string? or is there something i can do that will make docstrings >> understand that it should be applied after the macro? >> >> thanks, >> andrew >> >> >>
