Re: Haddock and man pages

2004-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 14:02 schrieb Per Larsson: > Hi, > > When you have a good understanding of a programming library and only need > to quickly refresh your memory regarding the type signature of a specific > function, etc., I find man pages very convenient. Are there any plans of > adding

Re: Haddock and man pages

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Simons
Per Larsson writes: > Are there any plans of adding this as an alternative > output format in Haddock? It might be easiest to support Docbook output in Haddock and to generate all other formats from that -- including "man" a.k.a. nroff. Adapting the HTML output for SGML or XML is probably less

Haddock and man pages

2004-01-02 Thread Per Larsson
Hi, When you have a good understanding of a programming library and only need to quickly refresh your memory regarding the type signature of a specific function, etc., I find man pages very convenient. Are there any plans of adding this as an alternative output format in Haddock? If not, mayb

Re: Haddock and module properties

2004-01-02 Thread Sven Panne
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: [...] I'm looking for a documentation about these things. AFAIK there is no real documentation for this, but "Use the Source, Luke!" (i.e. HaddockUtil.hs :-): The recognized labels are "Module", "Copyright", "License", "Maintainer", "Stability", and "Portability". This fits

Re: class ??? with Haddock

2004-01-02 Thread Sven Panne
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: does Hugs understand C preprocessor macros? If not, your approach would be bad for me since I try to stay Hugs-compatible. Well, Hugs itself doesn't understand CPP macros (neither does GHC), but you can use Hugs' -F flag to pipe the source files through before Hugs actual

Haddock and module properties

2004-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello, the sources of the hierarchical libraries contain things like Portability : portable in the module descriptions. Some of these property descriptions make it into the HTML documentation, some not. I'm looking for a documentation about these things. Why doesn't the Haddock User Guide

Re: Working haskell/db+hugs set?

2004-01-02 Thread kyra
> Therefore, I still provide > the old Hugs 1998 may version just to enable people to play with it. Unfortunately, http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/download/hugs98may.exe is broken (cut at 256k boundary?). > As Bjorn said, the good news is that people at Chalmers try to update haskellDB for > use in cur

Re: Working haskell/db+hugs set?

2004-01-02 Thread Daan Leijen
Hi Kyra, Trying to play with haskell/db, I've found myself being a little bit stuck. The latest version of hugs haskell/db (as referenced from http://www.haskell.org/haskellDB/download.html) works with seems to be of May 1999. I cannot find any references to this version of hugs except http://www