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authorNathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com>2017-05-11 02:47:55 -0700
committerAlex Biehl <alexbiehl@gmail.com>2017-05-11 11:47:55 +0200
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Improve documenation of Haddock markup (#614)
* Improve documentation of Haddock markup. - document that Haddock supports inferring types top-level functions with without type signatures, but also explain why using this feature is discouraged. Looks like this feature has been around since version 2.0.0.0 in 2008! - rework the "Module description" section: - move the general discussion of field formatting to the section intro and add examples illustrating the prose for multiline fields. - mention that newlines are preserved in some multiline fields, but not in others (I also noticed that commas in the `Copyright` field are not preserved; I'll look into this bug later). - add a subsection for the module description fields documentation, and put the field keywords in code formatting (double back ticks) instead of double quotes, to be consistent with the typesetting of keywords in other parts of the documentation. - mention that "Named chunks" are not supported in the long-form "Module description" documentation. - fix formatting of keywords in the "Module attributes" section. Perhaps these errors were left over from an automatic translation to ReST from some other format as part of the transition to using Sphinx for Haddock documentation? Also, add a missing reference here; it just said "See ?"! - update footnote about special treatment for re-exporting partially imported modules not being implemented. In my tests it's not implemented at all -- I tried re-exporting both `import B hiding (f)` and `import B (a, b)` style partial imports, and in both cases got the same result as with full imports `import B`: I only get a module reference. * Rework the `Controlling the documentation structure` section. My main goal was to better explain how to use Haddock without an export list, since that's my most common use case, but I hope I improved the section overall: - remove the incomplete `Omitting the export list` section and fold it into the other sections. In particular, summarize the differences between using and not using an export list -- i.e. control over what and in what order is documented -- in the section lead. - add "realistic" examples that use the structure markup, both with and without an export list. I wanted a realistic example here to capture how it can be useful to explain the relationship between a group of functions in a section, in addition to documenting their individual APIs. - make it clear that you can associate documentation chunks with documentation sections when you aren't using an export list, and that doing it in the most obvious way -- i.e. with `-- |`, as you can in the export list -- doesn't work without an export list. It took me a while to figure this out the first time, since the docs didn't explain it at all before. - add a "no export list" example to the section header section. - add more cross references. * Add examples of gotchas for markup in `@...@`. I'm not sure this will help anyone, since I think most people first learn about `@...@` by reading other people's Haddocks, but I've documented the mistakes which I've made and then gotten confused by. * Use consistent Capitalization of Titles. Some titles were in usual title caps, and others only had the first word capitalized. I chose making them all use title caps because that seems to make the cross references look better.
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