Thanks, this is great! Tom
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 26, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Christopher Done <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahoy hoy, > > Just thought I'd announce a tool I whipped up these evening to take a > module name and a name and output the installed Haddock documentation > for it. Examples with my GHCi session: > > λ> :doc Data.List.Split split > Split a list according to the given splitting strategy. This is > how to "run" a Splitter that has been built using the other > combinators. > λ> :doc Control.Concurrent.MVar swapMVar > Take a value from an MVar, put a new value into the MVar and > return the value taken. This function is atomic only if there are > no other producers for this MVar. > λ> :doc Data.List sort > Ambiguous module, belongs to more than one package: base haskell2010-1.1.0.1 > Continuing anyway... > Package: base > The sort function implements a stable sorting algorithm. > It is a special case of sortBy, which allows the programmer to supply > their own comparison function. > > Please have a play with it, the package is at: > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-docs It has installation > instructions. Feel free to share any issues that you have, either > here, or on the Github page: https://github.com/chrisdone/haskell-docs > There are some issues to do with versioning that I'm not sure how to > solve in a standard way. > > The obvious next step is to have a -package-conf flag so that it can > be used with cabal-dev. > > The wizards on #haskell are currently thinking of a way to avoid > having to write the module name and just use what's in scope. > > Ciao! > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
