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(Not a JS'er) You can pass a comment as a parameter?

• marpstar 11y ago
  not in the language itself, but you can obtain the full text of a function, detect the comment and parse it, and inject it where ever it needs to go.
  • STRML 11y ago
    Yep. "Passing a comment" is used by calling .toString() on the function. It fails when using minification for obvious reasons but of course you wouldn't on Node code. It's a clever hack around JS's awful multiline string support. But with ES6 template strings it's not really needed anymore.
• untog 11y ago
  You can, but I'm a little confused as to why you would, instead of just passing a string. Fits in with the esoteric nature of the library, though.
  • maxmcd 11y ago
    Possibly because multiline strings are not supported?
    • ivank 11y ago
      ES6 template strings can span multiple lines.