Comment by tonyarkles

5 hours ago

One of the things that I've been chewing on lately is the sync problem. Having a CI job that identifies places where the docs have drifted from the implementation seems pretty valuable.

Python community figured this out in 2001: https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

  • I don't think this is related in any way.

    • > Having a CI job that identifies places where the docs have drifted from the implementation seems pretty valuable.

      https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

      > To check that a module’s docstrings are up-to-date by verifying that all interactive examples still work as documented. To perform regression testing by verifying that interactive examples from a test file or a test object work as expected. To write tutorial documentation for a package, liberally illustrated with input-output examples. Depending on whether the examples or the expository text are emphasized, this has the flavor of “literate testing” or “executable documentation”.

      Seems pretty related to me.