Error in documentation for Control.Exception (base-4.*)

[wren ng thornton]

On 6/29/11 1:37 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> This was caught by mbuf on #haskell: the example for the Exception
> class in Control.Exception as of base-4 needs some extra escaping for
> Haddock markup.  It currently has:
>
> @
> *Main>  throw ThisException `catch` \e ->  putStrLn (\"Caught \" ++ show
> (e :: MyException))
> Caught ThisException
> @
>
> It should be (untested; I'm not sure of the backticks but I think it'll
work):
>
> @
> *Main>  throw ThisException \`catch\` \\e ->  putStrLn (\"Caught \" ++
> show (e :: MyException))
> Caught ThisException
> @

You should also escape the >. At least on older Haddock it was required,
not sure about newer Haddock (though it doesn't complain).

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