[swift-evolution] Pitch: Documentation access from the Swift REPL

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Because this is a REPL change not a language change I recommend you report this as an enhancement request in a radar.

~Robert Widmann

> On Jun 8, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Roope Kangas via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am new to Swift and just started learning but...
> 
> When exploring standard library and the language it self from the REPL.
> Users currently need to switch between a browser to read documentation and the 
> REPL it self.
> 
> What I would like to see in the REPL is behaviour like this:
> 
>  1> :help print
> 
>  	print(_:separator:terminator:)
>  	Writes the textual representations of the given items into the standard output.
> 
>  	...
> 
> This means some kind of nice textual version of what I find here:
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print>
> 
> I see that in the source code this information is available 
> (https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13 <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13>).
> 
> And that in the playgrounds I can get this quick help. Would be really nice
> to access this from the REPL too.
> 
> 
> KR,
>  
> --
> Roope Kangas
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