Browsing D compiler source code

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 7 10:46:35 PST 2016


On 1/7/2016 9:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 14:32:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The recent conversion of the D compiler source code opens up the practicality
>> of using Ddoc on the code.
>
> There's been nothing stopping people from commenting dmd's source in the past,
> but it barely has any.

Consider the state of Phobos docs before Ddoc. It was as badly documented as dmd 
source code is, or even worse. Ddoc revolutionized that. Putting the Ddoc 
results online produces quick feedback on improving the comments, hence is 
motivating.


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