Is run.d going to be expand for runtime and the phobos library?

David Gileadi gileadisNOSPM at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 15:25:07 UTC 2020


On 6/13/20 2:05 AM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:33:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> That should be killed with fire. I have seldom disliked a program this 
>> much.
> 
> If anything should be killed with fire that should probably be the use 
> of DDoc macros in dlang.org. It's a prime example of 
> https://wiki.c2.com/?JobSecurity, but with the difference with that 
> analogy that the only people needing that job security had already quit 
> and now the whole thing is so messed up that no one can fix it without 
> rewriting it from scratch.

At one time I had ambitions to search and replace the documentation to 
use markdown syntax instead of Ddoc macros to the extent possible. I 
just haven't made time for it yet, sadly.

One in particular I'd like to replace is the silly $(P) macro on every 
single paragraph, but that would require another PR to Ddoc to do 
automatically create paragraphs instead of <BR>s. In my original 
"markdown" PR that got shot down and I didn't try to bring it back at 
the time.


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