Another use case for __traits(docComment)

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Monday, 11 November 2019 at 17:16:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> I still am very VERY leery of having anything in comments 
> affect the code in any way.

then just.... don't do that.

And btw for the record you could have comments affect code right 
now:

mixin((__LINE__ % 3) ? "one thing" : "other thing"); // adding a 
comment above would change the line number and possibly trigger 
the other thing!


but such a thing is obviously absurd and nobody would write that, 
unless maybe doing an obfuscated contest.

The same thing is true of documentation comments. You *could* 
abuse... but why would you? UDAs are easier to use for other 
purposes anyway. (just right now we are using UDAs for docs just 
because it is needed elsewhere!)

> What about a compromise? Provide access to the docs but ONLY at 
> runtime. That is, you will not know anything about the string 
> at compiletime, just at runtime, and you can make your 
> decisions there.

Yeah, that'd work for this case but it is a pointless restriction.