What would be the advantage of writing something like "See also fetch/2..."
at the end of the @doc? The functions would  be linked this way as well.

On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, eksperimental <eksperimen...@autistici.org> wrote:

> I have been craving for this feature for a long time.
> I think it will help with a lot with things such as including
> discoverability of functions or leading people in the right direction
> with very little effort from the documentation side.
>
> A @see_also (it could be named @related, or any other better name).
>
> Let's say in Enum module
>
>   @spec at(t, index, default) :: element | default
>   @see_also [:fetch!/2, :fetch/2]
>   def at(enumerable, index, default \\ nil) do
>     case fetch(enumerable, index) do
>       {:ok, h} -> h
>       :error   -> default
>     end
>   end
>
>   @spec filter(t, (element -> as_boolean(term))) :: list
>   @see_also :reject
>   def filter(enumerable, fun) when is_list(enumerable)
>   and is_function(fun, 1) do
>    ...
>
> ExDoc could take advantage of such feature, and automatically linked to
> suggested functions.
>
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