mixin not evaluated during doc generation

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 08:42:10 PST 2008


On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Morusaka <morusaka at inwind.it> wrote:
> It seems that doc generation is a separate task and phase from source code compilation.
> For example, mixin are not evaluated during doc generation and you can't generate comments with them:
>
> [code]
> mixin ("/**\n * comment generated with a mixin\n */");
> void foo() {}
> // no doc will be generated for function foo()
> [/code]
>
> why this behavior?
> Can't you think of a mixin that generates both code and doc for it? I think that will be nice, don't you?
>
> Thank you, Luca.

It might or might not make you feel better, but this has already been
reported.  Twice.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=648
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2420

I wonder if the second should be marked as a dup of the first..


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