RFR: 8164408: Add module support for @see, @link and @linkplain javadoc tags.
Jonathan Gibbons
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Tue Jun 2 15:14:50 UTC 2020
On 6/2/20 7:13 AM, Hannes Wallnoefer wrote:
> That’s correct, the toString() representation and default link label will be different from the actual string in the doc comment. The rationale is that the trailing slash is there just to disambiguate the link as a module reference, and the slash is not part of the actual module name.
>
> If it is important to preserve the link signature as-is we can keep it in the signature. We’ll have to check for it later on when checking for external module references, but that is not a problem.
>
> Hannes
Hannes,
The tree .toString() should be an accurate/exact rendition of the
input. It's a "syntax" tree representing the input. It should not be
desugared/pre-rendered into what we might want for the output.
The form of any generated text should be determined when generating the
text,
-- Jon
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