Hi Ranjit,
2011/6/1 Ranjit Jhala
Hi all,
I have just modified HsColour, Haddock and Cabal in order to produce HTML sources where the types of the identifiers are displayed when the mouse hovers over the identifier. You can see the results for HsColour, Haddock and Cabal at:
Cool stuff!
* Haddock: takes a --annot=FILE option, and generates a text database as described above. This could be useful even in other settings, e.g. to display identifier types within emacs/vim (the current approaches, at least for vim only show types for top-level bindings...) New dependency: syb (to walk over the GHC AST and extract type bindings)
Hmm, do you know that Haddock can already generate a Hoogle database? If so, is this database significantly different? About the dependency, I don't think we can depend on syb as it's not a GHC boot library. (Haddock is used in the GHC build process and can only depend on boot libraries). syb was moved out of the boot libraries a while ago, unfortunately. Thanks for the patch, I will take a look at it. David