proposal: heredoc comments to allow `+/` in comments, eg from urls or documented unittests

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 01:01:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> You could also always just declare a DDOC macro.
>
> Just put
>
> Macros:
>     PLUS=+
>
> in the ddoc comment and then use $(PLUS) instead of +. It's 
> more verbose that way given that PLUS isn't one of the standard 
> ddoc macros, but it's more idiomatic to look at.

This won't work because URL linkification happens before macro 
resolution, so $(PLUS) will break URLs. But you can of course 
always use $(HTTP ...) or equivalent to emit a link explicitly.