[Haskell-cafe] Re: Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

Luke Palmer lrpalmer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 05:49:45 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>wrote:

> That looks like a freakin' cool idea; however very hard to implement;
> so why not write such wikis in predefined places, like,
> haskell.org/haskellwiki/Data/Monoid/ and allow haddock to
> automatically put links there from the generated documentation? This
> would make the documentation (on the wiki) more organized, more
> 'extensible' and people would know a place where they can surely share
> their knowledge in a useful and very findable way.


See annocpan <http://annocpan.org> for prior art.


>
>
> Are there any drawbacks to this?
>
> 2009/1/16 Apfelmus, Heinrich <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de>:
> > Dan Piponi wrote:
> >>> Several people have suggested this, and I think it would go a long way
> >>> towards solving the problem.
> >>
> >> That sounds like a good plan. Which precise bit of documentation
> >> should I update? Make a new wiki page? Put it in here:
> >>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html
> >
> > I think it would be great if the haddock documentation itself were a
> > wiki, so everyone can edit it right in place.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > H. Apfelmus
> >
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