This Week in Rust Docs 105

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This week’s edition was edited by Guillaume Gomez.

Latest news

Some improvements on JS size are being worked on. More to come soon!

Current opened issues

For now, here are the three big issues for Rust documentation:

They all need help to move forward so any contribution is very welcome!

There are currently around 70 other documentation issues opened. Look for T-doc tagged issues on GitHub!

Waiting for merge

@sgrif removed the “leak check” in favor of “universes”.
@ecstatic-morse rewrote docs for std::ptr.
@da-x included scope names in diagnostics.
@Phlosioneer clarified the difference between get_mut and into_mut for OccupiedEntry.
@mulkieran made some documentation fixes for the Write trait.
@fkjogu documented round-off error in .mod_euc()-method.
@petrochenkov added deprecation lint for duplicated macro_exports.
@QuietMisdreavus deprecated #![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)] in rustdoc and replaced most (e)println! statements with structured warnings/errors in rustdoc.
@F001 added lint for multiple associated types.
@ollie27 added support for pub(restricted) in rustdoc.
@adevore added example writing a &str for fs::write.
@sanxiyn updated the man page with additional –print options.
@GuillaumeGomez stabilized short error format, made some rustdoc improvements, fixed extern prelude failure in rustdoc and added minification process.

Recent doc contributions

@ibabushkin refactored auto trait handling in librustdoc to be accessible from librustc.
@rizakrko added missing implementation hint.
@clarcharr mentionned Result<!, E> in never docs.
@zackmdavis removed crazy suggestion for unreachable braced pub-use.
@leodasvacas improve error reporting in Copy derive.
@Screwtapello updated canonicalize docs.
@glandium restored RawVec::reserve* documentation and cleaned up a use in a raw_vec test.
@ExpHP moved “See also” disambiguation links for primitive types to top.
@frewsxcv clarified in the docs that mul_add is not always faster.
@Manishearth added some explanations for #[must_use].
@Aaronepower updated RELEASES.md for 1.26.0.
@GuillaumeGomez prevented infinite recursion of modules in rustdoc and fixed rustdoc pathes search.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Tuesday 15th of May 2018 at 19:00 UTC on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org. Feel free to come!

Written on May 13, 2018