Re: RFC: Automated Testing Of Code Examples In Documentation and "=for example"

[Tom Christiansen]

I already did that.  I ran it on the Cookbook code.
Yes, some things didn't work out for such reasons as you
state.

That's not the point.

The point is that what you suggest is too much work.  You aren't
ever going to get people to add all your gratuitous lint-happiness inserts
to all their docs.  

Therefore, the best you can do is autocheck what's there, and hand/eye-check
whatever it doesn't like.  Don't invent complicated new systems.  You're
overengineering technically and underengineering socially.  

When in down, use brute force--which, I suggest, is what you ought to do
here.

--tom