# Stabilization report
## Summary
This stabilizes using macro expansion in key-value attributes, like so:
```rust
#[doc = include_str!("my_doc.md")]
struct S;
#[path = concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/generated.rs")]
mod m;
```
See the changes to the reference for details on what macros are allowed;
see Petrochenkov's excellent blog post [on internals](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/macro-expansion-points-in-attributes/11455)
for alternatives that were considered and rejected ("why accept no more
and no less?")
This has been available on nightly since 1.50 with no major issues.
## Notes
### Accepted syntax
The parser accepts arbitrary Rust expressions in this position, but any expression other than a macro invocation will ultimately lead to an error because it is not expected by the built-in expression forms (e.g., `#[doc]`). Note that decorators and the like may be able to observe other expression forms.
### Expansion ordering
Expansion of macro expressions in "inert" attributes occurs after decorators have executed, analogously to macro expressions appearing in the function body or other parts of decorator input.
There is currently no way for decorators to accept macros in key-value position if macro expansion must be performed before the decorator executes (if the macro can simply be copied into the output for later expansion, that can work).
## Test cases
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/attributes/key-value-expansion-on-mac.rs
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/rustdoc/external-doc.rs
The feature has also been dogfooded extensively in the compiler and
standard library:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83329
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83230
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/82641
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/80534
## Implementation history
- Initial proposal: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/55414#issuecomment-554005412
- Experiment to see how much code it would break: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/67121
- Preliminary work to restrict expansion that would conflict with this
feature: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77271
- Initial implementation: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78837
- Fix for an ICE: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/80563
## Unresolved Questions
~~https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83366#issuecomment-805180738 listed some concerns, but they have been resolved as of this final report.~~
## Additional Information
There are two workarounds that have a similar effect for `#[doc]`
attributes on nightly. One is to emulate this behavior by using a limited version of this feature that was stabilized for historical reasons:
```rust
macro_rules! forward_inner_docs {
($e:expr => $i:item) => {
#[doc = $e]
$i
};
}
forward_inner_docs!(include_str!("lib.rs") => struct S {});
```
This also works for other attributes (like `#[path = concat!(...)]`).
The other is to use `doc(include)`:
```rust
#![feature(external_doc)]
#[doc(include = "lib.rs")]
struct S {}
```
The first works, but is non-trivial for people to discover, and
difficult to read and maintain. The second is a strange special-case for
a particular use of the macro. This generalizes it to work for any use
case, not just including files.
I plan to remove `doc(include)` when this is stabilized. The
`forward_inner_docs` workaround will still compile without warnings, but
I expect it to be used less once it's no longer necessary.
This adds a new lint to `rustc` that is used in rustdoc when a code
block is empty or cannot be parsed as valid Rust code.
Previously this was unconditionally a warning. As such some
documentation comments were (unknowingly) abusing this to pass despite
the `-Dwarnings` used when compiling `rustc`, this should not be the
case anymore.
Rename `#[doc(spotlight)]` to `#[doc(notable_trait)]`
Fixes#80936.
"spotlight" is not a very specific or self-explaining name.
Additionally, the dialog that it triggers is called "Notable traits".
So, "notable trait" is a better name.
* Rename `#[doc(spotlight)]` to `#[doc(notable_trait)]`
* Rename `#![feature(doc_spotlight)]` to `#![feature(doc_notable_trait)]`
* Update documentation
* Improve documentation
r? `@Manishearth`
"spotlight" is not a very specific or self-explaining name.
Additionally, the dialog that it triggers is called "Notable traits".
So, "notable trait" is a better name.
* Rename `#[doc(spotlight)]` to `#[doc(notable_trait)]`
* Rename `#![feature(doc_spotlight)]` to `#![feature(doc_notable_trait)]`
* Update documentation
* Improve documentation
Update rustdoc documentation
- Remove most of the information about passes. Passes are deprecated.
- Add `--document-private-items`; it was missing before.
- Update `--output-format json`; it was very outdated.
- Note that `--input-format` is deprecated.
- Move deprecated options to the very end.
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/82675.
r? `@Manishearth`
- Remove most of the information about passes. Passes are deprecated.
- Add `--document-private-items`; it was missing before.
- Update `--output-format json`; it was very outdated.
- Note that `--input-format` is deprecated.
- Move deprecated options to the very end.
- Move `passes.html` to the end of the table of contents. Ideally it
would be removed altogether, but that causes mdbook not to generate the
docs.
- Move MISSING_CRATE_LEVEL_DOCS to rustdoc directly
- Update documentation
This also takes the opportunity to make the `no-crate-level-doc-lint`
test more specific.
rustdoc: Support argument files
Factors out the `rustc_driver` logic that handles argument files so that rustdoc supports them as well, e.g.:
rustdoc `@argfile`
This is needed to be able to generate docs for projects that already use argument files when compiling them, e.g. projects that pass a huge number of `--cfg` arguments.
The feature was stabilized for `rustc` in #66172.
Factors out the `rustc_driver` logic that handles argument files
so that rustdoc supports them as well, e.g.:
rustdoc @argfile
This is needed to be able to generate docs for projects that
already use argument files when compiling them, e.g. projects
that pass a huge number of `--cfg` arguments.
The feature was stabilized for `rustc` in #66172.
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Add links to the source for the rustc and rustdoc books.
This adds a little icon in the upper-right corner of the books so that readers can find the source if they want to make changes or file issues. This is already included in several of the other books.
