Another use case for __traits(docComment)

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 18:02:35 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> I don't have this problem when doing documentation generation, 
> I just do `dub build --build=docs` and I get html pages that 
> look fine (no double spaces), without needing to know what 
> happens under the hood.

That's because HTML ignores extra spaces. If you were to do 
__traits(docComment) and output it to an HTML file, you'd see 
that same result. The space is still there, it is just rendered 
differently by the target environment.

All __traits(docComment) should do is return the source code 
after the compiler read it. (actually, I wouldn't even mind if it 
was the whole comment, in full, including the delimiters, but if 
the compiler already removes stars I'm ok with that too)

> That's probably going to give new bug reports too. ("Why did my 
> list bullets disappear with __traits(docComment)? I see it just 
> fine when rendering with adrdox!")

Well, adrdox is not compatible with ddoc exactly, so I'd just 
accept that.