[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36524] Upgrade defun macro to accept non-double-quoted string for DOCSTRING

[Lachlan Andrew]

Update of bug #36524 (project octave):

                Severity:                1 - Wish => 2 - Minor              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Another reason to do this would be to allow conditional text within the
docstring, based on which HAVE_... macros are defined.
Treating the docstring as a C string would allow


"first part"
#ifdef HAVE_...
"middle part"
#endif
"final part"


but since these are parsed by sed instead being treated as C strings, this
introduces a spurious pair of double quotes.

The patch for bug #45654 would benefit from that, since functionality depends
on HAVE_SETPGID.  Things such as graphics_toolkit may also benefit from being
able to provide installation-specific help.

One solution may be to use sed to extract a short section of C/cpp code
containing a printf to generate the .df file, though that may be rather slow.

Severity: Wishlist -> Minor

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