Great! This would be very useful. Can you point me to how such doctests are 
run in Base. I'll have a look at extracting the functionality.

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 1:27:47 AM UTC-7, andy hayden wrote:
>
> In Base it's done (in the function's docstring) with fenced code blocks 
> with jldoctest language:
>
> ```jldoctest
> julia> code goes here
> output here
> ```
>
> I don't think there's support yet outside on Base, but it's on at least 
> one roadmap (coming soon).
>
> On Saturday, 2 January 2016 02:48:23 UTC-8, John Travers wrote:
>>
>> Has the situation changed at all with all of the new documentation 
>> options last year?
>> I would find a good equivalent of Python's doctests extremely useful in 
>> my code, and I guess it could make use of the documentation strings 
>> functionality in 0.4?
>>
>> On Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 3:51:55 PM UTC+2, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>>>
>>> There is something in JuliaDoc 
>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaDoc/blob/master/juliadoc/jldoctest.py. 
>>> It think it was intended to be used to ensure that the manual was kept up 
>>> to date when we changed how things was printed.
>>>
>>> Ivar
>>>
>>> kl. 12:46:18 UTC+2 lørdag 28. juni 2014 skrev Magnus Lie Hetland 
>>> følgende:
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything similar to Python's doctest (
>>>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html) for Julia? (Couldn't 
>>>> find anything…) Probably not to hard to hack together for myself, but if 
>>>> it's out there, I'd rather not reinvent the wheel :-}
>>>>
>>>

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