[Haskell-cafe] haddock: parse error in doc string

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Ouch, with all the great Haskell parsers like Parsec around I think I was
expecting a line/column number :-)
But I see a ticket is already open for this
http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/83

<http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/83>On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:47 AM,
Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Peter Verswyvelen<bugfact at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm getting the error mentioned in the subject, but without any
> indication
> > where in my file this error occurs.
> > What does this mean?
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
>
> It means exactly that - something in that file's comments is causing
> Haddock to choke. It could be using '*' inside some --s, it could be
> something else. Haddock won't really say. Your best bet is the old
> bisect/binary-search method: remove half the comments & retry,
> narrowing it down until you've found the offending line and then
> character. Then you can either remove it or read the Haddock manual
> and see what the right thing looks like.
>
> --
> gwern
>
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