[haddock @ 2004-08-09 11:55:05 by simonmar]

Add support for a short description for each module, which is included
in the contents.

The short description should be given in a "Description: " field of
the header.  Included in this patch are changes that make the format
of the header a little more flexible.  From the comments:

-- all fields in the header are optional and have the form
--
-- [spaces1][field name][spaces] ":"
--    [text]"\n" ([spaces2][space][text]"\n" | [spaces]"\n")*
-- where each [spaces2] should have [spaces1] as a prefix.
--
-- Thus for the key "Description",
--
-- > Description : this is a
-- >    rather long
-- >
-- >    description
-- >
-- > The module comment starts here
--
-- the value will be "this is a .. description" and the rest will begin
-- at "The module comment".

The header fields must be in the following order: Module, Description,
Copyright, License, Maintainer, Stability, Portability.

Patches submitted by: George Russell <ger@informatik.uni-bremen.de>,
with a few small changes be me, mostly to merge with other recent
changes.

ToDo: document the module header.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/Binary.hs b/src/Binary.hs
index 092d29f2..eb7b9929 100644
--- a/src/Binary.hs
+++ b/src/Binary.hs
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ module Binary
 --   putBinFileWithDict,	-- :: Binary a => FilePath -> Module -> a -> IO ()
 
     -- re-export for the benefit of other modules.
-   openBinaryFile 
+   openBinaryFile, 
 
-  FormatVersion,
-  nullFormatVersion,
-  mkFormatVersion,
+   FormatVersion,
+   nullFormatVersion,
+   mkFormatVersion,
   ) where
 
 #include "MachDeps.h"