[julia-users] Creating docstrings using code generation

[Curtis Vogt]

I was hoping to generate several redundant docstrings using code 
generation. Unfortunately I have run into an issue where $name isn't being 
replaced in the docstring:

julia> using Base.Dates

julia> for name in (:year, :month, :day, :hour, :minute, :second, :
millisecond)
           @eval begin
               @doc """
                   $name(dt::TimeType) -> Int64

               Return the $name of a `Date` or `DateTime` as an `Int64`.
               """ ->
               $name(dt::TimeType)
           end
       end
ERROR: UndefVarError: name not defined
 in eval(::Module, ::Any) at ./boot.jl:267
 [inlined code] from ./boot.jl:266
 in anonymous at ./no file:4294967295
 in eval(::Module, ::Any) at ./boot.jl:267



Is there a way I can get this to work?