Greetings café, Perhaps some saddening news for Markdown fans out there. As you might remember, there was a fair amount of push for having Markdown as an alternate syntax for Haddock.
Unfortunately, this is probably not going to happen for reasons listed on the post I just published at [1]. This thread is meant to be for discussion about the post as many people, myself included, felt that Markdown would be a nice thing to have. I feel like I covered the topic fairly well on the post but feel free to give suggestions or ask questions. I would also like to remind you that if there's something that you'd like to see in Haddock or something that you feel is broken, a good way express this is to make a ticket on the Haddock Trac[2]. I will close the relevant Markdown ticket on the Trac[3] in about 3 days, unless someone can come up with a reasonable solution that meets the initial intent of this part of the project: a widely known markup format that could be used as an alternate syntax for Haddock so that it's possible to write the documentation without learning the vanilla syntax itself. [1]: http://fuuzetsu.co.uk/blog/posts/2013-08-30-why-Markdown-in-Haddock-can't-happen.html [2]: http://trac.haskell.org/haddock [3]: http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/244 -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
