Rust by Example

46.1 Doc Comments

Doc comments are very useful for big projects that require documentation. When running Rustdoc, these are the comments that get compiled into documentation. They are denoted by a ///, and support Markdown.

/// A human being is represented here pub struct Person { /// A person must have a name, no matter how much Juliet may hate it name: String, } impl Person { /// Returns a person with the name given them /// /// # Arguments /// /// * `name` - A string slice that holds the name of the person /// /// # Example /// /// ``` /// // You can have rust code between fences inside the comments /// // If you pass --test to Rustdoc, it will even test it for you! /// let person = Person::new("name"); /// ``` pub fn new(name: &str) -> Person { Person { name: name.to_string(), } } /// Gives a friendly hello! /// /// Says "Hello, [name]" to the `Person` it is called on. pub fn hello(& self) { println!("Hello, {}!", self.name); } } fn main() { let john = Person::new("John"); john.hello(); }