Showing unittest in documentation (Was Re: std.unittests [updated] for review)

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Jan 24 12:15:07 PST 2011


On 1/24/11 1:50 PM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I think that it's been discussed a time or two, but nothing has been done about
>> it. It wouldn't be entirely straightforward to do. Essentially, either a
>> unittest block would have to be generated from the Examples section in the
>> documentation, or you'd have to have some way to indicate that a particular
>> unittest block got put into the documentation as an Examples section. It's
>> certainly true that it would be ideal to have a way to avoid the duplication,
>> but we don't have one at the moment, and it hasn't yet been a high enough
>> priority to sort out how to do it and implement it.
>
> I see. I understand that it does not have high priority. Just wondered
> whether ...
>
> Jens

The change is much simpler than what Jonathan suggests. A change can be 
made such that any unittest preceded by a documentation comment is 
automatically considered an example.

/**
  Example:
*/
unittest
{
     writeln("This is how it works.");
}


Andrei


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