Docs: Links to source code

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 27 03:06:39 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 09:56:44 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 27.07.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Chris:
>> For one reason or another I sometimes find myself checking out 
>> the
>> implementation of functions in Phobos. For this I have to go 
>> to the
>> module file on Github, e.g. this one [1], and look for the 
>> function
>> (that often has more than one implementation). Wouldn't it be 
>> nice to
>> have a direct link from the documentation of the function to 
>> the source
>> code? Is that feasible at all?
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/searching.d
>
> The new docs have that:
> http://dlang.org/library/std/algorithm/searching/all.html
>
> (click the "View source code" link at the top of the page)

Great! Maybe "View source code" could be either more visible 
(stronger color/gray) or near the function name. The reason I say 
this is that a lot of people will not find it and ask here where 
the link to the source code is.


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