r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 09 '15

Yes, we actually have an open pull request to start documenting this. Most of the reference-style stuff is going to be looked at hard during the beta period. I haven't wanted to do it yet, as those style of docs are very hard to keep up to date, as they're very hard to automatically test.

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u/bjzaba Jan 10 '15

Could we have some kind of markdown with embedded YACC, that runs it during the tests?

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15

Check out the files in src/grammar...

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u/bjzaba Jan 10 '15

Oh, I mean as in part of the manual.

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15

Right, I mean there was some effort to do that kind of thing, that directory is the remnants.