Parse docstrings within structs as K"doc"
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Julia's ecosystem (including Base.Docs and flisp lowering) assumes that
strings within `struct` definitions are per-field docstrings, but the
flisp parser doesn't handle these - they are only recognized when the
struct itself has a docstring and are processed by the `@doc` macro
recursing into the struct's internals. For example, the following
doesn't result in any docs attached to `A`.
```julia
struct A
"x_docs"
x
"y_docs"
y
end
```
This change adds `K"doc"` node parsing to the insides of a struct,
making the semantics clearer in the parser tree and making it possible
to address this problems in the future within JuliaLowering.
Also ensure that the `Expr` form is unaffected by this change.
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…#511) Julia's ecosystem (including Base.Docs and flisp lowering) assumes that strings within `struct` definitions are per-field docstrings, but the flisp parser doesn't handle these - they are only recognized when the struct itself has a docstring and are processed by the `@doc` macro recursing into the struct's internals. For example, the following doesn't result in any docs attached to `A`. ```julia struct A "x_docs" x "y_docs" y end ``` This change adds `K"doc"` node parsing to the insides of a struct, making the semantics clearer in the parser tree and making it possible to address this problems in the future within JuliaLowering. Also ensure that the `Expr` form is unaffected by this change.
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Julia's ecosystem (including Base.Docs and flisp lowering) assumes that strings within
structdefinitions are per-field docstrings, but the flisp parser doesn't handle these - they are only recognized when the struct itself has a docstring and are processed by the@docmacro recursing into the struct's internals. For example, the following doesn't result in any docs attached toA.This change adds
K"doc"node parsing to the insides of a struct, making the semantics clearer in the parser tree and making it possible to address this problems in the future within JuliaLowering.Also ensure that the
Exprform is unaffected by this change.