I feel like most of your examples of "abuse" are just getting things done. I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with doctests. I also can't see a better wa

I feel like most of your examples of "abuse" are just getting things done. I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with doctests. I also can't see a better way to do "load bearing comments," and I'm not eager to go back to "Step 2: Edit your .bashrc to include foo."