language lawyering - doc strings

[gcash]

"Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)" <tony at lsl.co.uk> writes:

> gcash wrote:
> > I know this is being pedantic, but where's the syntactical spec for
> > documentation strings in the language reference?
> 
> Hmm - docstrings are just that - strings - so one is allowed to put
> whatever text one likes in there, and I believe this will always be the
> case. This is a Good Thing, notwithstanding my next points...

Thanks, but I was looking for what allowed me to put a string as the first
statement of a function or class.

I know I *can*, but not because of anything the language spec says.

-gc

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