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

[Ben]

sorry, i was only trying to make a helpful suggestion!

just to clarify: i'm not championing asciitext (or any other format) -- i only heard about it recently in a comment on

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html

i checked it out and it sounded cool, so i thought it'd be a helpful pointer to whomever is working on new haddock -- they are of course welcome to ignore it.  totally understand that overmuch debate is not helpful (though i'm not sure it's fair to call it bikeshedding, since it is a primary feature of the proposed project!)

best, ben

On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Ben <midfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> asciidoc has been mentioned a few times in comments, i think it's worth looking at.
> 
> This is the problem I was afraid of: for every markup syntax under the sun, someone will come along to champion it.
> 
> The choice of one or N syntaxes is ultimately up to the discretion of the student, guided by their mentor. It is in our collective interest to avoid prolonging a bikeshed discussion on this, as a long inconclusive discussion risks dissuading any sensible student or mentor from wanting to pursue the project in the first place.