Subtle bug in ddox vs. ddoc macro handling

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 17 02:29:44 PDT 2016


On 9/16/2016 11:53 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> There is indeed a separate macro engine [1] contained in the ddox repo. Neither
> DDMD, nor libddoc existed at the time and DMD's implementation was written in,
> from a D POV, very alien C style, with no suitable structure to extract high
> level information, so instead of porting it, I instead tried to implement a
> processor from the spec [1]. However, it turned out that the spec is not
> sufficient at all, so a lot of changes were necessary over time to work out
> those small differences. I'd like to improve the docs, but I'm still not
> confident that my implementation's behavior is always equivalent (as this issue
> shows).

I've factored out the Ddoc macro code into a separate component:

https://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html



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