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Description
| Previous ID | SR-5173 |
| Radar | None |
| Original Reporter | roope (JIRA User) |
| Type | Improvement |
Attachment: Download
Additional Detail from JIRA
| Votes | 1 |
| Component/s | LLDB for Swift |
| Labels | Improvement |
| Assignee | None |
| Priority | Medium |
md5: 8fbcb432e9328ba73bf93fce76c20101
Issue Description:
When exploring standard library and the language it self from the REPL.
Users currently need to switch between a browser to read documentation and the
REPL it self.
What I would like to see in the REPL is behaviour like this:
1> :help print
print(_:separator:terminator:)
Writes the textual representations of the given items into the standard output.
...This means somekind of nice textual version of what I find here:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print
I see that in the source code this information is available
(https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13).
And that in playgrounds I can get this quick help. Would be really nice
to access this from the REPL too.
Attached an example of how the documentation access works from Elixir REPL.