-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/13 06:57, Ben wrote: > sorry, i was only trying to make a helpful suggestion! > > just to clarify: i'm not championing asciitext (or any other > format) -- i only heard about it recently in a comment on > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html > > i checked it out and it sounded cool, so i thought it'd be a > helpful pointer to whomever is working on new haddock -- they are > of course welcome to ignore it. totally understand that overmuch > debate is not helpful (though i'm not sure it's fair to call it > bikeshedding, since it is a primary feature of the proposed > project!) > > best, ben > > On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Ben <midfi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> asciidoc has been mentioned a few times in comments, i think it's >> worth looking at. >> >> This is the problem I was afraid of: for every markup syntax >> under the sun, someone will come along to champion it. >> >> The choice of one or N syntaxes is ultimately up to the >> discretion of the student, guided by their mentor. It is in our >> collective interest to avoid prolonging a bikeshed discussion on >> this, as a long inconclusive discussion risks dissuading any >> sensible student or mentor from wanting to pursue the project in >> the first place. > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe > mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > These two posts are exactly why I believe that extending Haddock itself would be of more benefit than simply adding a Markdown extension to it: with addition to core features, integrating any of the N syntaxes that people want suddenly becomes the question of just writing reader and writer modules for Pandoc instead of a full project on marshalling yet another markup as an extension directly to Haddock.
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