[Haskell-cafe] [Haddock] Alphabetize record accessors

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

I've seen many cases where a type is specified using a record, but it is
not used for simple cases. For example,

data X = X { a :: String, b :: String }

let t = X "abc" "def"

Thus the ordering of record elements is crucial and should match the one
shown in the haddocks.
It might be possible for haddock to have a button that sorts them, on
demand. That'd be the best of both worlds.

On 8 June 2015 at 08:58, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8 June 2015 at 13:23, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How would people feel about Haddock alphabetizing record accessors by
> > default?
> >
> > For example:
> >     data T { b :: ..., c :: ... , a :: ... }
> > displays as:
> >     data T { a :: ..., b :: ... , c :: ... }
> >
> > Seems as though projects that have large records like Cabal & Parsec
> would
> > benefit from this.
>
> In some (many?) cases, there is a logical ordering to the values.
> Considering my own code, the records in GraphvizParams here matches
> the ordering that they're used/found in the resultant Dot graph:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/graphviz-2999.17.0.2/docs/Data-GraphViz.html#t:GraphvizParams
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -deech
> >
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-- 
Regards

Sumit Sahrawat
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