Super Haddock (was Re: Literate Programming)
Andy Moran
moran@galois.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:49:57 -0700
On Thursday 24 April 2003 08:10 am, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Simon: how much work would this be?
>
> That's an interesting idea. It's not at all what Haddock was intended
> for, but that's not to say it couldn't be done!
Glad to hear it.
> There are some issues to do with how you want the output to look: should
> it retain the indentation of the original source, or ident according to
> some fixed style? If you want the indentation from the original source
> then Haddock's front end will need some changes to support retaining
> that information. Throwing away the original indentation and generating
> output indented according to a fixed style would be rather easier.
I agree. One could imagine providing a mildly configurable style (for
example, do notation has a few widely used competing styles: layout only,
braces and semis, or even totally Utrecht).
Cheers,
Andy
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