[Haskell-cafe] Reading Haddock sources on hackage no longer possible with simple browsers?

[Li-yao Xia]

Note that the raw sources are available in another location:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/isbn-1.1.0.2/src/lib/Data/ISBN/Types.hs

(starting from the Hackage page for the package, under Downloads, click 
"browse")

On 11/14/2020 10:32 AM, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have been using Lynx to read stuff on hacakge for a long time.
> 
> I recently noticed that it is no longer possible to read the source of a
> module, because extra type information (which is likely hidden in a
> modern browser) is inline with the actual sources.  This makes the go to
> source feature effectively useless.  An example (from the ISBN package):
> 
>      deriving (Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
>      [ISBN] -> ShowS
>      ISBN -> String
>      (Int -> ISBN -> ShowS)
>      -> (ISBN -> String) -> ([ISBN] -> ShowS) -> Show ISBN
>      forall a.
>      (Int -> a -> ShowS) -> (a -> String) -> ([a] -> ShowS) -> Show a
>      showList :: [ISBN] -> ShowS
>      $cshowList :: [ISBN] -> ShowS
>      show :: ISBN -> String
>      $cshow :: ISBN -> String
>      showsPrec :: Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
>      $cshowsPrec :: Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
>      Show, ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool
>      (ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool) -> (ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool) -> Eq ISBN
>      forall a. (a -> a -> Bool) -> (a -> a -> Bool) -> Eq a
>      /= :: ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool
>      $c/= :: ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool
>      == :: ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool
>      $c== :: ISBN -> ISBN -> Bool
>      Eq)
>      
> I know Haskell has a ton of extensions, but I am pretty sure nobody
> writes code like this :-)
> 
> This is, frankly, pretty horrible.   Can something be done to fix this?
> 
> (I am aware that certain modernisations are unstoppable.  However, this
> one looks like a bug.)
>