[Haskell-cafe] Haddock and the qualified imports

[Evan Laforge]

I've long wanted a "display it like I typed it" option, e.g. if I
typed 'Module.function' the link would look exactly like that.

I've also often wished that unimported but fully qualified modules
like 'Data.List.partition' would link even if Data.List is not
imported.  I suppose similarly to the way that ""s "blind link"
without having to know about the module in question.

And speaking of ""s, I've always wondered why double quotes were
needed for module names, and why single quotes around capitalized
words isn't sufficient.

But I also always assumed that the answers were probably all "not
enough people sending patches" so they just went on my personal list
of things to look at if I ever had some extra time.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:36 AM, David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/6 David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/12/6 Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com>:
>>> It should be written that this 'ByteString' is not a newly defined type but
>>> instead a re-exportation.
>>
>> It should be simple to add some kind of "Re-export of <link to
>> original thing>" tag to the Haddock documentation. Feel free to add a
>> ticket for this feature to the issue tracker
>> (trac.haskell.org/haddock) with a description of how it should work.
>
> I should really add as well that if you contribute patches that will
> increase the likelyhood of this being added in the near future from
> ~0% to 100% :-)
>
> In general I'd like to encourage anyone interesting in hacking on
> small useful projects for the benefit of the Haskell community to take
> a look at the Haddock trac. It's got a lot of nice little feature
> requests that no one is working on.
>
> In general we're not seeing that much new development in Haddock at
> the moment. I am (as the maintainer) mostly spending my time fixing
> bugs, making releases and so on. If anyone feels like helping out,
> please talk to me.
>
> David
>
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