On Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 20:58:55 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:15:15 +0100
schrieb Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com>:
Doing semantics in comments is beyond overkill.
They are DDoc and attached to a symbol. I've seen IDEs give
information on errors in documentation comments on the fly.
If at some point we can also automatically document thrown
exceptions I'm happy :)
I'm all for compiler warnings where they are cheap. Why wait
for someone to tell you, that your documentation has obvious
errors that could have been statically checked during its
generation ?
Let's add this as a nice-to-have on the new Wiki. Someone who
is interested in hacking on DMD can pick it up then.
One way to solve this and similar issues may be to add D support
to PMD. (http://pmd.sourceforge.net/). Many rules can be created
as XPath expressions, so if someone wants a new check on their
code, they can just write it. A side effect of doing this is that
we'd have a javacc-compatible grammar for D.
