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## [Doctest - a library to test Erlang doc attributes](https://erlangforums.com/t/doctest-a-library-to-test-erlang-doc-attributes/3614)

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**Author:** [@williamthome](https://erlangforums.com/u/williamthome)\
**Replies:** 30\
**Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/doctest-a-library-to-test-erlang-doc-attributes/3614 "2025-04-03T21:49:20Z")

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OTP 27 has implemented the -doc attribute, but what if its examples could be tested? That’s the purpose of the doctest lib. The motivation for it is this PR, which fixes some examples of the orddict module. Example Ta…

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## [Module doc - complete Markdown guide?](https://erlangforums.com/t/module-doc-complete-markdown-guide/4239)

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**Author:** [@mworrell](https://erlangforums.com/u/mworrell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/module-doc-complete-markdown-guide/4239 "2024-12-02T10:21:45Z")

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We are looking into moving the Zotonic .rst reference documentation into their specific Erlang modules, using the module doc features of OTP27. What I am searching for is the complete overview of the supported Markdown …

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## [Is there a way to document records with fields?](https://erlangforums.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-document-records-with-fields/3706)

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**Author:** [@Wondersye](https://erlangforums.com/u/Wondersye)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-document-records-with-fields/3706 "2024-06-04T02:13:13Z")

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Hi, I am switching some API comments from a edoc-style to the newer -doc attributes, and was wondering whether, although records are mostly syntactic-level beasts, there was a way of documenting them, including their fi…

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## [Implementation of EEP-59 - Documentation Attributes in Erlang](https://erlangforums.com/t/implementation-of-eep-59-documentation-attributes-in-erlang/3096)

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**Author:** [@kiko](https://erlangforums.com/u/kiko)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 13, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/implementation-of-eep-59-documentation-attributes-in-erlang/3096 "2023-12-13T12:01:12Z")

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Implementation of EEP-59 - Documentation Attributes Documentation attributes are added to the binary beam file, following format of EEP-48, via +beam\_docs compiler flag Warnings related to documentation attributes…