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-<!DOCTYPE BOOK PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
-
-<book id="haddock">
- <bookinfo>
- <date>2004-08-02</date>
- <title>Haddock User Guide</title>
- <author>
- <firstname>Simon</firstname>
- <surname>Marlow</surname>
- </author>
- <address><email>simonmar@microsoft.com</email></address>
- <copyright>
- <year>2004</year>
- <holder>Simon Marlow</holder>
- </copyright>
- <abstract>
- <para>This document describes Haddock version 0.6, a Haskell
- documentation tool.</para>
- </abstract>
- </bookinfo>
-
- <!-- Table of contents -->
- <toc></toc>
-
- <chapter id="introduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>This is Haddock, a tool for automatically generating
- documentation from annotated Haskell source code. Haddock was
- designed with several goals in mind:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>When documenting APIs, it is desirable to keep the
- documentation close to the actual interface or implementation
- of the API, preferably in the same file, to reduce the risk
- that the two become out of sync. Haddock therefore lets you
- write the documentation for an entity (function, type, or
- class) next to the definition of the entity in the source
- code.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>There is s tremendous amount of useful API documentation
- that can be extracted from just the bare source code,
- including types of exported functions, definitions of data
- types and classes, and so on. Haddock can therefore generate
- documentation from a set of straight Haskell 98 modules, and
- the documentation will contain precisely the interface that is
- available to a programmer using those modules.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Documentation annotations in the source code should be
- easy on the eye when editing the source code itself, so as not
- to obsure the code and to make reading and writing
- documentation annotations easy. The easier it is to write
- documentation, the more likely the programmer is to do it.
- Haddock therefore uses lightweight markup in its annotations,
- taking several ideas from <ulink
- url="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/idoc/">IDoc</ulink>.
- In fact, Haddock can understand IDoc-annotated source
- code.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The documentation should not expose any of the structure
- of the implementation, or to put it another way, the
- implementer of the API should be free to structure the
- implementation however he or she wishes, without exposing any
- of that structure to the consumer. In practical terms, this
- means that while an API may internally consist of several
- Haskell modules, we often only want to expose a single module
- to the user of the interface, where this single module just
- re-exports the relevant parts of the implementation
- modules.</para>
-
- <para>Haddock therefore understands the Haskell module system
- and can generate documentation which hides not only
- non-exported entities from the interface, but also the
- internal module structure of the interface. A documentation
- annotation can still be placed next to the implementation, and
- it will be propagated to the external module in the generated
- documentation.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Being able to move around the documentation by following
- hyperlinks is essential. Documentation generated by Haddock
- is therefore littered with hyperlinks: every type and class
- name is a link to the corresponding definition, and
- user-written documentation annotations can contain identifiers
- which are linked automatically when the documentation is
- generated.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>We might want documentation in multiple formats - online
- and printed, for example. Haddock comes with HTML and DocBook
- backends, and it is structured in such a way that adding new
- back-ends is straightforward.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <section id="obtaining">
- <title>Obtaining Haddock</title>
-
- <para>Distributions (source &amp; binary) of Haddock can be obtained
- from its <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/">web
- site</ulink>.</para>
-
- <para>Up-to-date sources can also be obtained from CVS. The
- Haddock sources are under <literal>fptools/haddock</literal> in
- the <literal>fptools</literal> CVS repository, which also
- contains GHC, Happy, and several other projects. See <ulink
- url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/sec-cvs.html">Using
- The CVS Repository</ulink> for information on how to access the
- CVS repository. Note that you need to check out the
- <literal>fpconfig</literal> module first to get the generic
- build system (the <literal>fptools</literal> directory), and
- then check out <literal>fptools/haddock</literal> to get the
- Haddock sources.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="license">
- <title>License</title>
-
- <para>The following license covers this documentation, and the
- Haddock source code, except where otherwise indicated.</para>
-
- <blockquote>
- <para>Copyright 2002, Simon Marlow. All rights reserved.</para>
-
- <para>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
- or without modification, are permitted provided that the
- following conditions are met:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Redistributions of source code must retain the above
- copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
- following disclaimer.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the
- above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
- following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other
- materials provided with the distribution.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS "AS
- IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT
- SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
- INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
- SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
- OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
- (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
- THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
- OF SUCH DAMAGE.</para>
- </blockquote>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Acknowledgements</title>
-
- <para>Several documentation systems provided the inspiration for
- Haddock, most notably:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
- url="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/idoc/">
- IDoc</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
- url="http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~groessli/hdoc/">HDoc</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">
- Doxygen</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>and probably several others I've forgotten.</para>
-
- <para>Thanks to the following people for useful feedback,
- discussion, patches, packaging, and moral support: Simon Peyton
- Jones, Mark Shields, Manuel Chakravarty, Ross Patterson, Brett
- Letner, Sven Panne, Hal Daume, George Russell, Oliver Braun,
- Ashley Yakeley, Malcolm Wallace, Krasimir Angelov, the members
- of <email>haskelldoc@haskell.org</email>, and everyone who
- contributed to the many libraries that Haddock makes use
- of.</para>
- </section>
-
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="invoking">
- <title>Invoking Haddock</title>
- <para>Haddock is invoked from the command line, like so:</para>
-
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>haddock</command>
- <arg rep="repeat"><replaceable>option</replaceable></arg>
- <arg rep="repeat" choice="plain"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
-
- <para>Where each <replaceable>file</replaceable> is a filename
- containing a Haskell source module. Only plain Haskell source
- files are accepted (but see <xref linkend="cpp"/> for instructions
- on how to pre-process source files for feeding to Haddock).</para>
-
- <para>All the modules specified on the command line will be
- processed together. When one module refers to an entity in
- another module being processed, the documentation will link
- directly to that entity.</para>
-
- <para>Entities that cannot be found, for example because they are
- in a module that isn't being processed as part of the current
- batch, simply won't be hyperlinked in the generated
- documentation. Haddock will emit warnings listing all the
- indentifiers it couldn't resolve.</para>
-
- <para>The modules should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be mutually
- recursive, as Haddock don't like swimming in circles.</para>
-
- <para>The following options are available:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-o</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-o</option> <replaceable>dir</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--odir</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--odir</option>=<replaceable>dir</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generate files into <replaceable>dir</replaceable>
- instead of the current directory.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-i</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-i</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable>,<replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--read-interface</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--read-interface</option>=<replaceable>path</replaceable>,<replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Read the interface file in
- <replaceable>file</replaceable>, which must have been
- produced by running Haddock with the
- <option>--dump-interface</option> option. The interface
- describes a set of modules whose HTML documentation is
- located in <replaceable>path</replaceable> (which may be a
- relative pathname). The <replaceable>path</replaceable> is
- optional, and defaults to <quote>.</quote>.</para>
-
- <para>This option allows Haddock to produce separate sets of
- documentation with hyperlinks between them. The
- <replaceable>path</replaceable> is used to direct hyperlinks
- to point to the right files; so make sure you don't move the
- HTML files later or these links will break. Using a
- relative <replaceable>path</replaceable> means that a
- documentation subtree can still be moved around without
- breaking links.</para>
-
- <para>Multiple <option>--read-interface</option> options may
- be given.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-D</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-D</option> <replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--dump-interface</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--dump-interface</option>=<replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Produce an <firstterm>interface
- file</firstterm><footnote><para>Haddock interface files are
- not the same as Haskell interface files, I just couldn't
- think of a better name.</para> </footnote>
- in the file <replaceable>file</replaceable>. An interface
- file contains information Haddock needs to produce more
- documentation that refers to the modules currently being
- processed - see the <option>--read-interface</option> option
- for more details. The interface file is in a binary format;
- don't try to read it.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-l</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-l</option> <replaceable>dir</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--lib</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--lib</option>=<replaceable>dir</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use auxiliary files in <replaceable>dir</replaceable>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-S</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-S</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--docbook</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--docbook</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Reserved for future use (output documentation in SGML DocBook
- format).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-h</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-h</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--html</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--html</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generate documentation in HTML format. Several files
- will be generated into the current directory (or the
- specified directory if the <option>-o</option> option is
- given), including the following:</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><filename>index.html</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The top level page of the documentation: lists
- the modules available, using indentation to represent
- the hierarchy if the modules are hierarchical.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><filename>haddock.css</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The stylesheet used by the generated HTML. Feel
- free to modify this to change the colors or
- layout, or even specify your own stylesheet using the
- <option>--css</option> option.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><filename>haddock.js</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A small piece of JavaScript for collapsing sections
- of the generated HTML.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><filename><replaceable>module</replaceable>.html</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>An HTML page for each
- <replaceable>module</replaceable>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><filename>doc-index.html</filename></term>
- <term><filename>doc-index-XX.html</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The index, split into two
- (functions/constructors and types/classes, as per
- Haskell namespaces) and further split
- alphabetically.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-m</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-m</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--html-help</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--html-help</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>(In HTML mode only) Produce extra contents and index
- files for given HTML Help system. Currently supported Help
- systems are Microsoft HTML Help 1.3 and 2.0 and GNOME DevHelp.</para>
-
- <para>Using the Microsoft HTML Help system provides two
- advantages over plain HTML: the help viewer gives you a nice
- hierarchical folding contents pane on the left, and the
- documentation files are compressed and therefore much
- smaller (roughly a factor of 10). The disadvantage is that
- the help can't be viewed over the web.</para>
-
- <para>In order to create a compiled Microsoft help file, you
- also need the Microsoft HTML Help compiler, which is
- available free from
- <ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/">http://www.microsoft.com/</ulink>
- (search for <quote>HTML Help compiler</quote>).</para>
-
- <para>Viewers</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Microsoft HTML Help Viewer</term>
- <listitem><para>Distributed with Microsoft Windows</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://xchm.sourceforge.net">xCHM</ulink></term>
- <listitem><para>a CHM viewer for UNIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), written by Razvan Cojocaru</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.jouledata.com/MacProducts.html">JouleData Solutions' CHM Viewer</ulink></term>
- <listitem><para>a comercial 100% native Cocoa .chm file viewer for the Mac OS X platform</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://gnochm.sourceforge.net">GnoCHM</ulink></term>
- <listitem><para>a CHM file viewer. It is designed to integrate nicely with Gnome.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>The GNOME DevHelp also provides help viewer which looks like
- MSHelp viewer but the documentation files aren't compressed.
- The documentation can be viewed with any HTML browser but
- DevHelp gives you a nice hierarchical folding contents and
- keyword index panes on the left. The DevHelp expects to see
- *.devhelp file in the folder where the documentation is placed.
- The file contains all required information
- to build the contents and index panes.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-s</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-s</option> <replaceable>URL</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--source</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--source</option>=<replaceable>URL</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Include links to the source files in the generated
- documentation, where <replaceable>URL</replaceable> is the
- base URL where the source files can be found.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-c</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-c</option> <replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--css</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--css</option>=<replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Specify a stylesheet to use instead of the default one
- that comes with Haddock. It should specify certain classes:
- see the default stylesheet for details.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-p</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-p</option> <replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--prologue</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--prologue</option>=<replaceable>file</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Specify a file containing documentation which is
- placed on the main contents page under the heading
- &ldquo;Description&rdquo;. The file is parsed as a normal
- Haddock doc comment (but the comment markers are not
- required).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-t</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-t</option> <replaceable>title</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--title</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--title</option>=<replaceable>title</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use <replaceable>title</replaceable> as the page
- heading for each page in the documentation.This will
- normally be the name of the library being documented.</para>
-
- <para>The title should be a plain string (no markup
- please!).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-n</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-n</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--no-implicit-prelude</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--no-implicit-prelude</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Don't automatically import <literal>Prelude</literal>
- in every module. Used when producing documentation for the
- <literal>Prelude</literal> itself.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-d</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-d</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--debug</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--debug</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Produce extra debugging output.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-?</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-?</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--help</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--help</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Display help and exit.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-v</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-v</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--verbose</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--verbose</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Increase verbosity. Currently this will cause Haddock
- to emit some extra warnings, in particular about modules
- which were imported but it had no information about (this is
- often quite normal; for example when there is no information
- about the <literal>Prelude</literal>).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-V</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-V</option>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--version</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--version</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Output version information and exit.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--use-index</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--use-index=<replaceable>URL</replaceable></option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>When generating HTML, do not generate an index.
- Instead, redirect the Index link on each page to
- <replaceable>URL</replaceable>. This option is intended for
- use in conjuction with <option>--gen-index</option> for
- generating a separate index covering multiple
- libraries.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--gen-index</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--gen-index</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generate an HTML index containing entries pulled from
- all the specified interfaces (interfaces are specified using
- <option>-i</option> or <option>--read-interface</option>).
- This is used to generate a single index for multiple sets of
- Haddock documentstation.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-k</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>-k</option> <replaceable>P</replaceable>
- </term>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>--package</option></primary></indexterm>
- <option>--package=</option><replaceable>P</replaceable>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Set the package name for these modules to
- <replaceable>P</replaceable>. In a combined index generated
- with <option>--gen-index</option>, the package name for each
- module is shown in the right-hand column.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <section id="cpp">
- <title>Using literate or pre-processed source</title>
-
- <para>Haddock only accepts plain, non-literate, Haskell source.
- This means that if you program in Literate Haskell, or you need
- to use the C pre-processor in your Haskell source, then you need
- to pre-process the files before feeding them to Haddock. This
- is easily accomplished using GHC; for example, suppose we have a
- Literate Haskell source file <filename>Foo.lhs</filename>, on
- which we also need to run the C pre-processor:</para>
-
-<screen>
-$ ghc -cpp -E -optP-P -D__HADDOCK__ Foo.lhs -o Foo.hs
-$ haddock -h Foo.hs ...
-</screen>
-
- <para>The <option>-E</option> option to GHC says "stop after
- pre-processing", the <option>-cpp</option> option turns on the C
- pre-processor, the <option>-optP-P</option> option tells the C
- pre-processor not to leave any extra dropping behind (see the
- description of the <option>-P</option> option in the gcc manual
- for details), and the <option>-D__HADDOCK__</option> option
- defines the symbol <literal>__HADDOCK__</literal> when
- pre-processing (this is sometimes handy if you need to any
- pre-processing conditionals in your source which depend on
- whether the source is going to be fed to Haddock).</para>
- </section>
-
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="markup">
- <title>Documentation and Markup</title>
-
- <para>Haddock understands special documentation annotations in the
- Haskell source file and propagates these into the generated
- documentation. The annotations are purely optional: if there are
- no annotations, Haddock will just generate documentation that
- contains the type signatures, data type declarations, and class
- declarations exported by each of the modules being
- processed.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Documenting a top-level declaration</title>
-
- <para>The simplest example of a documentation annotation is for
- documenting any top-level declaration (function type signature,
- type declaration, or class declaration). For example, if the
- source file contains the following type signature:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-square :: Int -> Int
-square x = x * x
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Then we can document it like this:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- |The 'square' function squares an integer.
-square :: Int -> Int
-square x = x * x
-</programlisting>
-
-
- <para>The <quote><literal>-- |</literal></quote> syntax begins a
- documentation annotation, which applies to the
- <emphasis>following</emphasis> declaration in the source file.
- Note that the annotation is just a comment in Haskell &mdash; it
- will be ignored by the Haskell compiler.</para>
-
- <para>The declaration following a documentation annotation
- should be one of the following:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>A type signature for a top-level function,</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>A <literal>data</literal> declaration,</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>A <literal>newtype</literal> declaration,</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>A <literal>type</literal> declaration, or</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>A <literal>class</literal> declaration.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>If the annotation is followed by a different kind of
- declaration, it will probably be ignored by Haddock.</para>
-
- <para>Some people like to write their documentation
- <emphasis>after</emphasis> the declaration; this is possible in
- Haddock too:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-square :: Int -> Int
--- ^The 'square' function squares an integer.
-square x = x * x
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Note that Haddock doesn't contain a Haskell type system
- &mdash; if you don't write the type signature for a function,
- then Haddock can't tell what its type is and it won't be
- included in the documentation.</para>
-
- <para>Documentation annotations may span several lines; the
- annotation continues until the first non-comment line in the
- source file. For example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- |The 'square' function squares an integer.
--- It takes one argument, of type 'Int'.
-square :: Int -> Int
-square x = x * x
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>You can also use Haskell's nested-comment style for
- documentation annotations, which is sometimes more convenient
- when using multi-line comments:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-{-|
- The 'square' function squares an integer.
- It takes one argument, of type 'Int'.
--}
-square :: Int -> Int
-square x = x * x
-</programlisting>
-
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Documenting parts of a declaration</title>
-
- <para>In addition to documenting the whole declaration, in some
- cases we can also document individual parts of the
- declaration.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Class methods</title>
-
- <para>Class methods are documented in the same way as top
- level type signatures, by using either the
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;|</literal></quote> or
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;^</literal></quote>
- annotations:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-class C a where
- -- | This is the documentation for the 'f' method
- f :: a -> Int
- -- | This is the documentation for the 'g' method
- g :: Int -> a
-</programlisting>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Constructors and record fields</title>
-
- <para>Constructors are documented like so:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-data T a b
- -- | This is the documentation for the 'C1' constructor
- = C1 a b
- -- | This is the documentation for the 'C2' constructor
- | C2 a b
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>or like this:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-data T a b
- = C1 a b -- ^ This is the documentation for the 'C1' constructor
- | C2 a b -- ^ This is the documentation for the 'C2' constructor
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Record fields are documented using one of these
- styles:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-data R a b =
- C { -- | This is the documentation for the 'a' field
- a :: a,
- -- | This is the documentation for the 'b' field
- b :: b
- }
-
-data R a b =
- C { a :: a -- ^ This is the documentation for the 'a' field
- , b :: b -- ^ This is the documentation for the 'b' field
- }
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Alternative layout styles are generally accepted by
- Haddock - for example doc comments can appear before or after
- the comma in separated lists such as the list of record fields
- above.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Function arguments</title>
-
- <para>Individual arguments to a function may be documented
- like this:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-f :: Int -- ^ The 'Int' argument
- -> Float -- ^ The 'Float' argument
- -> IO () -- ^ The return value
-</programlisting>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>The module description</title>
-
- <para>A module may contain a documentation comment before the
- module header, in which case this comment is interpreted by
- Haddock as an overall description of the module itself, and
- placed in a section entitled <quote>Description</quote> in the
- documentation for the module. For example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This is the description for module "Foo"
-module Foo where
-...
-</programlisting>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Controlling the documentation structure</title>
-
- <para>Haddock produces interface documentation that lists only
- the entities actually exported by the module. The documentation
- for a module will include <emphasis>all</emphasis> entities
- exported by that module, even if they were re-exported by
- another module. The only exception is when Haddock can't see
- the declaration for the re-exported entity, perhaps because it
- isn't part of the batch of modules currently being
- processed.</para>
-
- <para>However, to Haddock the export list has even more
- significance than just specifying the entities to be included in
- the documentation. It also specifies the
- <emphasis>order</emphasis> that entities will be listed in the
- generated documentation. This leaves the programmer free to
- implement functions in any order he/she pleases, and indeed in
- any <emphasis>module</emphasis> he/she pleases, but still
- specify the order that the functions should be documented in the
- export list. Indeed, many programmers already do this: the
- export list is often used as a kind of ad-hoc interface
- documentation, with headings, groups of functions, type
- signatures and declarations in comments.</para>
-
- <para>You can insert headings and sub-headings in the
- documentation by including annotations at the appropriate point
- in the export list. For example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module Foo (
- -- * Classes
- C(..),
- -- * Types
- -- ** A data type
- T,
- -- ** A record
- R,
- -- * Some functions
- f, g
- ) where
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Headings are introduced with the syntax
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;*</literal></quote>,
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;**</literal></quote> and so on, where
- the number of <literal>*</literal>s indicates the level of the
- heading (section, sub-section, sub-sub-section, etc.).</para>
-
- <para>If you use section headings, then Haddock will generate a
- table of contents at the top of the module documentation for
- you.</para>
-
- <para>The alternative style of placing the commas at the
- beginning of each line is also supported. eg.:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module Foo (
- -- * Classes
- , C(..)
- -- * Types
- -- ** A data type
- , T
- -- ** A record
- , R
- -- * Some functions
- , f
- , g
- ) where
-</programlisting>
-
- <section>
- <title>Re-exporting an entire module</title>
-
- <para>Haskell allows you to re-export the entire contents of a
- module (or at least, everything currently in scope that was
- imported from a given module) by listing it in the export
- list:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module A (
- module B,
- module C
- ) where
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>What will the Haddock-generated documentation for this
- module look like? Well, it depends on how the modules
- <literal>B</literal> and <literal>C</literal> are imported.
- If they are imported wholly and without any
- <literal>hiding</literal> qualifiers, then the documentation
- will just contain a cross-reference to the documentation for
- <literal>B</literal> and <literal>C</literal>. However, if
- the modules are not <emphasis>completely</emphasis>
- re-exported, for example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module A (
- module B,
- module C
- ) where
-
-import B hiding (f)
-import C (a, b)
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>then Haddock behaves as if the set of entities
- re-exported from <literal>B</literal> and <literal>C</literal>
- had been listed explicitly in the export
- list<footnote><para>NOTE: this is not fully implemented at the
- time of writing (version 0.2). At the moment, Haddock always
- inserts a cross-reference.</para>
- </footnote>.</para>
-
- <para>The exception to this rule is when the re-exported
- module is declared with the <literal>hide</literal> attribute
- (<xref linkend="module-attributes"/>), in which case the module
- is never cross-referenced; the contents are always expanded in
- place in the re-exporting module.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Omitting the export list</title>
-
- <para>If there is no export list in the module, how does
- Haddock generate documentation? Well, when the export list is
- omitted, e.g.:</para>
-
-<programlisting>module Foo where</programlisting>
-
- <para>this is equivalent to an export list which mentions
- every entity defined at the top level in this module, and
- Haddock treats it in the same way. Furthermore, the generated
- documentation will retain the order in which entities are
- defined in the module. In this special case the module body
- may also include section headings (normally they would be
- ignored by Haddock).</para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Named chunks of documentation</title>
-
- <para>Occasionally it is desirable to include a chunk of
- documentation which is not attached to any particular Haskell
- declaration. There are two ways to do this:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The documentation can be included in the export list
- directly, e.g.:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module Foo (
- -- * A section heading
-
- -- | Some documentation not attached to a particular Haskell entity
- ...
- ) where
-</programlisting>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>If the documentation is large and placing it inline in
- the export list might bloat the export list and obscure the
- structure, then it can be given a name and placed out of
- line in the body of the module. This is achieved with a
- special form of documentation annotation
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;$</literal></quote>:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module Foo (
- -- * A section heading
-
- -- $doc
- ...
- ) where
-
--- $doc
--- Here is a large chunk of documentation which may be referred to by
--- the name $doc.
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>The documentation chunk is given a name, which is the
- sequence of alphanumeric characters directly after the
- <quote><literal>--&nbsp;$</literal></quote>, and it may be
- referred to by the same name in the export list.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Hyperlinking and re-exported entities</title>
-
- <para>When Haddock renders a type in the generated
- documentation, it hyperlinks all the type constructors and class
- names in that type to their respective definitions. But for a
- given type constructor or class there may be several modules
- re-exporting it, and therefore several modules whose
- documentation contains the definition of that type or class
- (possibly including the current module!) so which one do we link
- to?</para>
-
- <para>Let's look at an example. Suppose we have three modules
- <literal>A</literal>, <literal>B</literal> and
- <literal>C</literal> defined as follows:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-module A (T) where
-data T a = C a
-
-module B (f) where
-import A
-f :: T Int -> Int
-f (C i) = i
-
-module C (T, f) where
-import A
-import B
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Module <literal>A</literal> exports a datatype
- <literal>T</literal>. Module <literal>B</literal> imports
- <literal>A</literal> and exports a function <literal>f</literal>
- whose type refers to <literal>T</literal>: the hyperlink in
- <literal>f</literal>'s signature will point to the definition of
- <literal>T</literal> in the documentation for module
- <literal>A</literal>.</para>
-
- <para>Now, module <literal>C</literal> exports both
- <literal>T</literal> and <literal>f</literal>. We have a choice
- about where to point the hyperlink to <literal>T</literal> in
- <literal>f</literal>'s type: either the definition exported by
- module <literal>C</literal> or the definition exported by module
- <literal>A</literal>. Haddock takes the view that in this case
- pointing to the definition in <literal>C</literal> is better,
- because the programmer might not wish to expose
- <literal>A</literal> to the programmer at all:
- <literal>A</literal> might be a module internal to the
- implementation of the library in which <literal>C</literal> is
- the external interface, so linking to definitions in the current
- module is preferrable over an imported module.</para>
-
- <para>The general rule is this: when attempting to link an
- instance of a type constructor or class to its definition, the
- link is made to</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>the current module, if the current module exports the
- relevant definition, or</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>the module that the entity was imported from,
- otherwise. If the entity was imported via multiple routes,
- then Haddock picks the module listed earliest in the imports
- of the current module.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="module-attributes">
- <title>Module Attributes</title>
-
- <para>Certain attributes may be specified for each module which
- affects the way that Haddock generates documentation for that
- module. Attributes are specified in a comma-separated list in a
- <literal>-- #</literal> (or
- <literal>{-&nbsp;#&nbsp;...&nbsp;-}</literal>) comment at the
- top of the module, either before or after the module
- description. For example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- #hide, prune, ignore-exports
--- |Module description
-module A where
-...
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>The following attributes are currently understood by
- Haddock:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><literal>hide</literal></primary></indexterm>
- <literal>hide</literal>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Omit this module from the generated documentation,
- but nevertheless propagate definitions and documentation
- from within this module to modules that re-export those
- definitions.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><literal>hide</literal></primary></indexterm>
- <literal>prune</literal>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Omit definitions that have no documentation
- annotations from the generated documentation.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <indexterm><primary><literal>hide</literal></primary></indexterm>
- <literal>ignore-exports</literal>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Ignore the export list. Generate documentation as
- if the module had no export list - i.e. all the top-level
- declarations are exported, and section headings may be
- given in the body of the module.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Markup</title>
-
- <para>Haddock understands certain textual cues inside
- documentation annotations that tell it how to render the
- documentation. The cues (or <quote>markup</quote>) have been
- designed to be simple and mnemonic in ASCII so that the
- programmer doesn't have to deal with heavyweight annotations
- when editing documentation comments.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Paragraphs</title>
-
- <para>One or more blank lines separates two paragraphs in a
- documentation comment.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Special characters</title>
-
- <para>The following characters have special meanings in
- documentation comments: <literal>/</literal>,
- <literal>'</literal>, <literal>`</literal>,
- <literal>"</literal>, <literal>@</literal>,
- <literal>&lt;</literal>. To insert a literal occurrence of
- one of these special characters, precede it with a backslash
- (<literal>\</literal>).</para>
-
- <para>Additionally, the character <literal>&gt;</literal> has
- a special meaning at the beginning of a line, and the
- following characters have special meanings at the beginning of
- a paragraph:
- <literal>*</literal>, <literal>-</literal>. These characters
- can also be escaped using <literal>\</literal>.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Code Blocks</title>
-
- <para>Displayed blocks of code are indicated by surrounding a
- paragraph with <literal>@...@</literal> or by preceding each
- line of a paragraph with <literal>&gt;</literal> (we often
- call these &ldquo;bird tracks&rdquo;). For
- example:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This documentation includes two blocks of code:
---
--- @
--- f x = x + x
--- @
---
--- &gt; g x = x * 42
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>There is an important difference between the two forms
- of code block: in the bird-track form, the text to the right
- of the &lsquo;<literal>></literal>&rsquo; is interpreted
- literally, whereas the <literal>@...@</literal> form
- interprets markup as normal inside the code block.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Hyperlinked Identifiers</title>
-
- <para>Referring to a Haskell identifier, whether it be a type,
- class, constructor, or function, is done by surrounding it
- with single quotes:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This module defines the type 'T'.
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>If there is an entity <literal>T</literal> in scope in
- the current module, then the documentation will hyperlink the
- reference in the text to the definition of
- <literal>T</literal> (if the output format supports
- hyperlinking, of course; in a printed format it might instead
- insert a page reference to the definition).</para>
-
- <para>It is also possible to refer to entities that are not in
- scope in the current module, by giving the full qualified name
- of the entity:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | The identifier 'M.T' is not in scope
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>If <literal>M.T</literal> is not otherwise in scope,
- then Haddock will simply emit a link pointing to the entity
- <literal>T</literal> exported from module <literal>M</literal>
- (without checking to see whether either <literal>M</literal>
- or <literal>M.T</literal> exist).</para>
-
- <para>To make life easier for documentation writers, a quoted
- identifier is only interpreted as such if the quotes surround
- a lexically valid Haskell identifier. This means, for
- example, that it normally isn't necessary to escape the single
- quote when used as an apostrophe:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | I don't have to escape my apostrophes; great, isn't it?
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>For compatibility with other systems, the following
- alternative form of markup is accepted<footnote><para>
- We chose not to use this as the primary markup for
- identifiers because strictly speaking the <literal>`</literal>
- character should not be used as a left quote, it is a grave accent.</para>
- </footnote>: <literal>`T'</literal>.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Emphasis and Monospaced text</title>
-
- <para>Emphasis may be added by surrounding text with
- <literal>/.../</literal>.</para>
-
- <para>Monospaced (or typewriter) text is indicated by
- surrounding it with <literal>@...@</literal>. Other markup is
- valid inside a monospaced span: for example
- <literal>@'f'&nbsp;a&nbsp;b@</literal> will hyperlink the
- identifier <literal>f</literal> inside the code fragment.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Linking to modules</title>
-
- <para>Linking to a module is done by surrounding the module
- name with double quotes:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This is a reference to the "Foo" module.
-</programlisting>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Itemized and Enumerated lists</title>
-
- <para>A bulleted item is represented by preceding a paragraph
- with either <quote><literal>*</literal></quote> or
- <quote><literal>-</literal></quote>. A sequence of bulleted
- paragraphs is rendered as an itemized list in the generated
- documentation, eg.:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This is a bulleted list:
---
--- * first item
---
--- * second item
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>An enumerated list is similar, except each paragraph
- must be preceded by either
- <quote><literal>(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</literal></quote>
- or
- <quote><literal><replaceable>n</replaceable>.</literal></quote>
- where <replaceable>n</replaceable> is any integer. e.g.</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This is an enumerated list:
---
--- (1) first item
---
--- 2. second item
-</programlisting>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Definition lists</title>
-
- <para>Definition lists are written as follows:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
--- | This is a definition list:
---
--- [@foo@] The description of @foo@.
---
--- [@bar@] The description of @bar@.
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>To produce output something like this:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><literal>foo</literal></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The description of <literal>foo</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><literal>bar</literal></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The description of <literal>bar</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>Each paragraph should be preceded by the
- &ldquo;definition term&rdquo; enclosed in square brackets.
- The square bracket characters have no special meaning outside
- the beginning of a definition paragraph. That is, if a
- paragraph begins with a <literal>[</literal> character, then
- it is assumed to be a definition paragraph, and the next
- <literal>]</literal> character found will close the definition
- term. Other markup operators may be used freely within the
- definition term.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>URLs</title>
-
- <para>A URL can be included in a documentation comment by
- surrounding it in angle brackets:
- <literal>&lt;...&gt;</literal>. If the output format supports
- it, the URL will be turned into a hyperlink when
- rendered.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Anchors</title>
-
- <para>Sometimes it is useful to be able to link to a point in
- the documentation which doesn't correspond to a particular
- entity. For that purpose, we allow <emphasis>anchors</emphasis> to be
- included in a documentation comment. The syntax is
- <literal>#<replaceable>label</replaceable>#</literal>, where
- <replaceable>label</replaceable> is the name of the anchor.
- An anchor is invisible in the generated documentation.</para>
-
- <para>To link to an anchor from elsewhere, use the syntax
- <literal>"<replaceable>module</replaceable>#<replaceable>label</replaceable>"</literal>
- where <replaceable>module</replaceable> is the module name
- containing the anchor, and <replaceable>label</replaceable> is
- the anchor label. The module does not have to be local, it
- can be imported via an interface.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- </chapter>
-</book>