[Haskell-cafe] On Markdown in Haddock and why it's not going to happen

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 01/09/13 13:59, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
> On 01/09/13 04:27, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>> It doesn't have to be 1-to-1 but the features have to be expressible in
>> both: it's useless if we have different features with one syntax but not
>> the other.
>
> I don't find that useless. Markdown does not have definition lists, but
> we use a normal list to achieve the same documentation goals.
>
> Already being able to simply write basic markdown would bring me big
> practical benefits, and I would prefer minor theoretical misalignments
> not to outweigh them.
>

I haven't considered it this way before. I'll try to implement it
today as an experiment and hopefully show-off the result so we can see
whether it's
worth using.


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Mateusz K.