TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'dict' and 'dict'?Skylark currently defines the + operator for dictionaries. Because Skydoc evaluates .bzl files as Python code and because the + operator for dictionaries may be removed from Skylark in the future, we suggest using the dict(a.items() + b.items()) syntax instead.
Not for now. The Build Encyclopedia documents the set of native Bazel build rules written in Java, and the Skylark Library documents the built-in Skylark modules and functions. Because both of these sets of docs are generated from Bazel's Java source code, they are generated using a separate documentation generation tool.
We are planning to create a catalog of Skylark rule sets to make it easy to publish and discover Skylark rule sets and browse their documentation. See bazelbuild/bazel#1046 for more information.
Unlike in other languages, Python docstrings are special string literals rather than comments. Because Skylark is a subset of Python, we take the same approach for Skylark docstrings as well. Because rule declarations are basically global variables, we follow the same convention for variable docstrings used by Python documentation generation tools, such as epydoc.