[Haskell-cafe] haddock changes between 2.10 and 2.12?

[David Waern]

2012/9/24 Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com>:
> Was there some significant change/bug introduced to haddock made between
> 2.10 and 2.12?
>
> When I look at the haddocks for kan-extensions 3.1: Data.Functor.Yoneda
> which purports to have been built by haddock 2.12 it shows all sorts of
> spurious superclass constraints on almost every instance that should have
> simplified out, but going back to kan-extensions-2.7: Data.Functor.Yoneda
> none of this extra noise is present -- and the code in question hasn't been
> changed in the interim, so I'm pretty sure its not on my end.

I think this is probably due to some change in the GHC internals.
We'll investigate.

Thanks for the report.

David