Why @export restricted to one line?

[MichaelChirico]

I would like to write a truly massive @export directive.

{bit64} exports a lot of functions, including every S3 method:

https://github.com/r-lib/bit64/blob/f30bae1787f65e0b4bff9c0dbe2addea5ba58877/NAMESPACE

I would like to explore un-exporting those, but that's a pretty involved project when trying to be considerate of potential breaking changes.

For now, I'd just like to keep the set of exports consistent as I move to {roxygen2}.

The way I'd like to go about that is to put all of these exports that didn't "naturally" wind up with their own @export tag elsewhere in the code base in a single @export tag in bit64-package.R, which I can easily tag with a TODO/bug.

This line would have almost 3,000 characters, though, so I'd like to wrap it. Prepending @export to every line wastes characters and causes visual noise.

AFAIK other tags don't have this restriction so I was surprised to encounter this only with @export.

[mcol]

Have you thought about generating your line programmatically with some inline code?