Standard Library Haddock-Interfaces?

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Tue Dec 23 21:25:11 EST 2003


In article 
<3429668D0E777A499EE74A7952C382D10146A9DA at EUR-MSG-01.europe.corp.microso
ft.com>,
 "Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately this isn't possible.  Haddock can produce documentation
> with hyperlinks to entities in another package, but it cannot include
> full documentation for entities which are re-expored from a different
> package.  This would require essentially keeping a copy of the entire
> documentation for the package in the interface file.

So what is stored in a Haddock interface file?

> > Are there standard Haddock-interfaces for the standard 
> > libraries?
> 
> A GHC distribution comes with Haddock interfaces for all the packages
> that it ships with.

Where? In the Debian package ghc 6.2-0.woody.1 I can only find the .hi 
files, and that's not the same thing, is it?

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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