[Haskell-cafe] Suggestion: A catalog of Language extensions

[Max Voit]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:41:51 +0200
Zachary Kessin <zkessin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have noticed that almost every haskell source file I have looked at
> has 4-8 language extensions. It would be very nice if there was a page
> somewhere that listed them all and gave a short (1 paragraph)
> description of what that extension does and what it is normally used
> for. That is not a detailed description of the API but a short
> description of *WHY* you might want to use it. Followed by a link to
> the API

There is

  https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/lang.html

and the more compact

  https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/libraries/Cabal-1.24.0.0/Language-Haskell-Extension.html

Best,
Max