Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > I share Ian Price’s concerns regarding the fundamental idea behind > doctest. Namely, writing code in strings means that syntax errors can > only be detected very late, and that the code in there cannot easily > refer to anything outside; What do you mean outside? I think it encourages pure function.
Am I understand right, that you would like to check such tests on
`make all`, and not on `make check`?
> furthermore, that pollutes docstrings, whose
> goal is to provide a help string for users.
Definitely right. At current state. But it is possible to separate
actual english documentation string and doctests. Displaying them
in (help function-name) may be turned off or, imho (since I like examples
in documentation), better, made optional.
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