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| author | David Waern <david.waern@gmail.com> | 2010-05-13 21:30:14 +0000 |
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| committer | David Waern <david.waern@gmail.com> | 2010-05-13 21:30:14 +0000 |
| commit | 472bb94180687bce37be39ff81ac9643adbd3087 (patch) | |
| tree | ba5938f777301b21897b043fcd18377f5fdabb52 /src/Haddock/Interface.hs | |
| parent | 004ba961fef3b784484a0aeb201faf8d9a31325b (diff) | |
Improve documentation of Haddock.Interface
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/Haddock/Interface.hs | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/Haddock/Interface.hs b/src/Haddock/Interface.hs index d8ccabf9..3c6c76b8 100644 --- a/src/Haddock/Interface.hs +++ b/src/Haddock/Interface.hs @@ -2,16 +2,29 @@ -- | -- Module : Haddock.Interface -- Copyright : (c) Simon Marlow 2003-2006, --- David Waern 2006-2009 +-- David Waern 2006-2010 -- License : BSD-like -- -- Maintainer : haddock@projects.haskell.org -- Stability : experimental -- Portability : portable -- --- Here we build the actual module interfaces. By interface we mean the --- information that is used to render a Haddock page for a module. Parts of --- this information are also stored in the .haddock files. +-- This module typechecks Haskell modules using the GHC API and processes +-- the result to create 'Interface's. The typechecking and the 'Interface' +-- creation is interleaved, so that when a module is processed, the +-- 'Interface's of all previously processed modules are available. The +-- creation of an 'Interface' from a typechecked module is delegated to +-- "Haddock.Interface.Create". +-- +-- When all modules have been typechecked and processed, information about +-- instances are attached to each 'Interface'. This task is delegated to +-- "Haddock.Interface.AttachInstances". Note that this is done as a separate +-- step because GHC can't know about all instances until all modules have been +-- typechecked. +-- +-- As a last step a link environment is built which maps names to the \"best\" +-- places to link to in the documentation, and all 'Interface's are \"renamed\" +-- using this environment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module Haddock.Interface ( |