On 13-05-01 02:47 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:44 PM, John Clements <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On May 1, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Graydon Hoare wrote: >> >>> On 13-05-01 10:32 AM, Lucian Branescu wrote: >>>> Is it too late/undesirable to have an explicit, separate syntax for >>>> docstrings, a bit like Lisps/Python? >>> >>> We have one: #[doc="..."] >>> >>> Doc comments are an alternative syntax for the same attribute because >>> nobody liked that. >> >> I would have, but... c'est la vie. >> >> John > > The attribute syntax would get ugly pretty quickly for multi-line > docstrings (which is hopefully eventually most, when they have > examples).
Sorry, I didn't mean to say the attribute syntax looked very good for docs; clearly it didn't. I just ... don't know what else we're looking for here. Yet another attribute syntax, or a still-special-case docs-only syntax that's specifically _not_ comment-like? -Graydon _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
