ddoc: Can I escape a colon?
H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 23 13:49:25 PST 2017
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:39:11PM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> Nah, that's overkill. This works:
>
> Note$(COLON) blah blah blah
>
> Apparently COLON is defined to be ':' in the default ddoc macros, so
> you needn't define it yourself.
[...]
Bah, I was wrong, you *do* need to manually define COLON yourself. :-(
I'm becoming more and more convinced that software that tries to be
smart ends up being even dumber than before. Ddoc trying to
automagically turn text into HTML is an example. :-(
T
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