Haddock chokes on '#'

[Simon Marlow]

On 11 February 2005 17:44, Peter Simons wrote:

> Processing the file
> 
>> module Test where
>> 
>> -- |Haddock chokes on this.
>> 
>> (#)    :: a -> (a -> b) -> b
>> a # f  =  f a
> 
> with Haddock 0.6 gives an error:
> 
>  | haddock test.hs
>  | test.hs:5:3: Parse error
> 
> Since GHC deals with this code just fine, I suppose this is
> a bug.

Haddock parses GHC extensions by default, so its syntax corresponds to
GHC with -fglasgow-exts.  This could be considered a bug, but it
probably won't get fixed (unless someone sends me a patch...).

Cheers,
	Simon