Stefan van der Walt

We could also parse back-slashes at ends of lines, which would allow the triple quotes to be used.

I have no further ideas on how to handle this one.

Do you mean the HOWTO_DOCUMENT.txt etc.? Or write a short manual for numpydoc (that does seem like a worthwhile thing to do).

The backslash does seem more explicit.

I'd say at least a warning, although an exception here is not unreasonable.

Warnings are probably safer for now then , since I believe we currently do compile that case without error. On 16 September 2017 23:50:29 Joel Nothman wrote: > Then we...

That is weird; if you figure out what's going on, let's put a note in the README at least.

Thank you for clarifying these issues, Sergio. Are you interested in working together on a PR to fix this?

Parsing a docstring can be done very quickly if all you are interested in is finding the notes section. Is the delay of locating the notes section really enough to...

The are prescriptive, because that is the standard. Would you have preferred them be more flexible?