#3870: Avoid Haddock-links to the Prelude
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Reporter: waern | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Documentation
Version: 6.12.1 | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Documentation bug
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Comment(by waern):
Replying to [comment:1 ross]:
> Isn't the reason Prelude.Int is chosen that GHC.Base is hidden, because
it isn't part of the public interface of the package?
GHC.Base is not chosen because it is hidden, but that leaves the choice to
either Prelude.Int or Data.Int. Haddock prefers the module that is closest
to the original module in the dependency tree. Since both Prelude.Int and
Data.Int directly imports GHC.Base, they are at the same level of the
dependency tree and thus Haddock has to make an arbitrary choice. If
Prelude had imported Data.Int and not GHC.Base (just for illustration;
such a restructuring may be hard to do since Prelude imports many more
things via GHC.Base), the link would go to Data.Int.
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