On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:14 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:56 +0200, Lemmih wrote: > > On 8/24/05, Krasimir Angelov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2005/8/24, John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ooh. neat. any chance it could be extended to preserve haddock comments > > > > and attach them to the right places? I thought it would be really cool > > > > if compilers could use the haddock documentation when printing out error > > > > messages and be able to query documentation as well as type info from > > > > inside the interpreter. > > > > John > > > > > > I think that it could be more useful to preserve all comments. Haddock > > > can filter out only the haddock style comments but there are tools > > > that use another style of comments. > > > > I can't really imagine what the AST would look like if it should > > support comments in arbitrary places. > > Haddock annoations cannot appear in arbitrary places. > > They can be attached to the top level module, exported symbols, function > defeinitions, function arguments, data types, data constructors (and > possibly one or two things I've forgotten). So they can all be attached > to sensible places in the AST.
Oh, wait. I misunderstood. Ignore me. :-) Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell