Difference between revisions of "Haddock/Development ideas"

From HaskellWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (typo)
(About module parameters)
Line 8: Line 8:
 
[[Image:Haste_screenshot_hovering.png]]
 
[[Image:Haste_screenshot_hovering.png]]
   
  +
* Haddock could accept module parameters with space after "-- #" ("-- #hide" is accepted nowadays, but "-- # hide" not)
 
It would be good to have a recursive flag that would operate on all the .hs and .lhs files under a single directory.
 
It would be good to have a recursive flag that would operate on all the .hs and .lhs files under a single directory.
   

Revision as of 12:17, 9 February 2007

There would be a number of benefits if GHC's parser were extended to understand the Haddock documentation markup and then Haddock changed to use the GHC API:

  • Haddock would get full support for GHC's various syntactic extensions.
  • Haddock would understand {#- LINE -#} pragmas which would allow it to generate links to the original source code.
  • Haddock would get much better error messages.
  • Haddock could infer types for functions with no explicit type signature.
  • GHCi and IDEs like hIDE and Visual Haskell would be able to display API documentation in more convenient ways like in this Haste screenshot:

Haste screenshot hovering.png

  • Haddock could accept module parameters with space after "-- #" ("-- #hide" is accepted nowadays, but "-- # hide" not)

It would be good to have a recursive flag that would operate on all the .hs and .lhs files under a single directory.

It would be nice if haddock is able to parse more user defined operators like (#).