The build is broken? (Haddock parse error)

[Simon Hengel]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 08:21:43AM +0000, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> 
> | >     parse error on input ‘-- *kind* and role of its argument.
> | Luckily,
> | > laziness should’
> | >
> | > [1] http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/builders/freebsd-amd64-
> | head/322/10.html
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> | 
> | ‘-- *’ is Haddock syntax for headers and because GHC doesn't expect a
> | Haddock comment there, it chucks a parse error. I think just adding a
> | leading space or turning it into {- -} style comment would work.
> | 
> | In all honesty, GHC should just warn and treat as regular comments at
> | these cases rather than failing.
> 
> I agree.  I've been bitten by this several times.  But don't you mean "Haddock should just warn..."?

The corresponding code is in GHC (only used with Opt_Haddock).  So we
need to change this in GHC.

Cheers,
Simon