In VS Code, I keep getting that the linter returns a “possible method call error” if I try to create an instance of a struct with fields to which I’ve added docstrings; see the below MWE where the linter doesn’t complain about Foo1 but does complain about Foo2. Is the only way to avoid this to put t…

I think the idea of a docstring is that it is one bit of text that describes the defined object independently of that definition itself (e.g. in docs or requested via the REPL). For structs fieldnames are often repeated in the docstring. You could repeat the field descriptions in comments next to th…

Possible method call error -> docstring above struct fields

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Possible method call error -> docstring above struct fields

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