Writing Great Documentation

Updated

October 31, 2026

Writing Great Documentation

Write documentation comments using triple slashes /// supporting Markdown:

/// Calculates the checksum for a given network payload buffer.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// let data = [1, 2, 3];
/// let sum: u32 = data.iter().map(|&x| x as u32).sum();
/// assert_eq!(sum, 6);
/// ```
pub fn calculate_checksum(data: &[u8]) -> u32 {
    data.iter().map(|&x| x as u32).sum()
}

Generate and open documentation:

cargo doc --open