On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 19:50:49 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello,
In wake of the recent discussions on improving ddoc syntax
we're looking at doing something about it. Please discuss any
ideas you might have here. Thanks!
One simple starter would be to allow one escape character, e.g.
the backtick (`), as a simple way to expand macros: instead of
$(MACRO arg1, arg2) one can write `MACRO arg1, arg2`.
Andrei
My biggest issue with DDOC compared to popular stuff like
Markdown / ReStructured Text : it doesn't look nice as a source.
Markdown is so cute because it mimics the style of ASCII-based
text file formatting. DDOC is naturally very verbose because of
all $(MACRO stuff) and lack of basic primitives for most common
needs.
I don't feel like any small change in DDOC will make me like/use
it.
