[Haskell-cafe] Markdown extension for Haddock as a GSoC project

[Conrad Parker]

On 30 April 2013 09:28, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 29/04/2013, at 10:04 PM, kudah wrote:
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>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:04:47 +1200 "Richard A. O'Keefe"
>> <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> so that there is no possibility of catching errors early;
>>> by definition in that processor there are no errors.
>>
>> Haddock's markup isn't any better in that regard.
>
> Did I praise Haddock?
>
>> I spent two hours on
>> my first day with haddock figuring out that I needed an empty comment
>> line before a code block. It didn't issue any warnings or errors either.
>
> Report that as a bug.
>
> For what it's worth, I've resurrected an old design I did and have
> been playing with it to see just how bad it really is to use something
> like @i<word> than _word_.

Everyone agrees it's useful to have @i<legible> markup :)

I'm impressed with Mateusz' balanced summary of the issues and look
forward to his GSoC project submission about _Markdown_.

Conrad.