On 06/05/14 02:49, Mason McGill wrote:
**I'm fairly new to D, so let me know if this belongs in another thread.**
I'd like to contribute a new feature to the DMD front-end, and I'd
appreciate some feedback on the design before I start on a pull request.
Feature:
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`__traits(comment, symbol)` will evaluate to the doc-comment of
`symbol`, if it is available, and "", otherwise. For DMD, this means it
will provide comment information if the "-D" compiler option is used.
Other implementations can choose to always evaluate it to "".
Use Cases:
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Here's my use case: I'm building an automatic wrapper generator for
binding D to dynamic languages (mostly for scientific applications, at
the moment). It's like SWIG, but more automated and narrower in scope.
Right now, I have two suboptimal options for supporting documentation
comments:
I have thought about it a couple of times before. I would say, just go
for it. __traits is a pretty good staring point for someone not familiar
with the DMD source.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
