What happens when no documentation is provided?

Will this introduce new entries in undocumented.json, or will it just remove the peculiar “Undocumented” note from the generated documentation?

It seems odd to me to require documentation when the symbol is already documented at its declaration (even if in another module), and the extension documentation is inaccessible to Quick Help and friends.

On the other hand, thumbs up if this stops Jazzy from publishing the nonsense text “Undocumented” under each extended type. That has been annoying me for a while.

I don’t mind if I will have to add :nodoc: or something similar to extensions to suppress warnings, but I’m concerned that it be possible to do in a way that does not make the symbol itself vanish from the documentation—especially if its descendants disappear with it.

If no doc were provided then you would get the 'nonsense' text 😄 as today, no change.

The only thing this change does is display the doc comment -- if you wrote one -- instead of 'Undocumented'. I think it is often natural + useful to write doc comments on extensions of existing types to explain their purpose in the context of a module's complete documentation; several user issues along this line.

So, you would be able to get rid of 'undocumented' with an empty doc comment '///'.

Extensions of types from other modules never contribute to undocumented.json.

...so it is a bit unhelpful to stick 'undocumented' on them without warning.
And some extensions have no need of documentation because covered in content docs / would just be 'Some useful methods on Foo'. (plus your point wrt Xcode).
And extensions of Swift types (local or foreign module) do not behave like this.

OK, I'm convinced: we should never see this particular 'Undocumented'.

New proposal for undocumented symbols:

1. Display 'Undocumented.' for the abstract if and only if the symbol goes in undocumented.json and so affects documented%: we want the user to write some docs.
2. Otherwise display the doc comment as the abstract, which may be blank: we don't mind if the user doesn't write docs, but if they do then we'll display them.

Thanks a lot for the comments.

Sounds perfect, @johnfairh. Thanks for listening.

Awesome, thanks @johnfairh 👏

cheers!