support for non-markdown docstrings is broken? #15424
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docsystem
The documentation building system
regression
Regression in behavior compared to a previous version
One of the original key points of the docsystem design was that
@doc
could use any Julia object as a docstring, andwritemime
would be used to convert that object to different formats as needed. The default would be Markdown objects, but other objects would also be supported.This seems to have been broken in a recent Julia 0.5 commit, causing JuliaPy/PyPlot.jl#198 because PyPlot uses "lazy" documentation objects that fetch docstrings from Python only when needed in order to speed up
using PyPlot
.For example,
@doc 15 f(x) = 2
used to work in Julia 0.4, associating15
as the documentation object forf
, but it now gives:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: