[GHC] #11079: Add ability to access and generate haddock-style comments through template haskell

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#11079: Add ability to access and generate haddock-style comments through template
haskell
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           Reporter:  ekmett         |             Owner:
               Type:  feature        |            Status:  new
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           Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:
          Component:  Template       |           Version:  7.10.2
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           Keywords:                 |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
       Architecture:                 |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
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 We've had a number of suggestions throughout the last few years that we
 either by default or by option permit the copying of comments from the
 original field to the lenses we generates via `template-haskell`.

 There isn't a way to do this currently.

 Ideally we'd be able to access the haddocks associated with a name and
 generate comments as a form of declaration suitable for the top level or
 in a class definition.

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11079>
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