Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 23.12.2020, 10:07 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee:
Simon, is this sufficient that it can replace manually maintaining the Google doc?
Thank you! Yes, it's 90% as good which is probably enough. Can you put them in a specified order rather than alphabetical? (Having "Class and instance decls" so far from "Types" is odd.)
Tricky. Maybe I can parse docs/users_guide/exts.rst and use the order of that file (putting all those that are _not_ part of that file afterwards). … ok, done. (If the order is now unsuitable I hope that we can improve that at the source, in the GHC docs :-))
TypeApplications has nothing to do with Patterns.
Hmm, this is because GHC’s master users_guide/exts/patterns.rst mentions type_application. This glitch will go away once someone merges https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4673
Why is DeriveGeneric under "Misc" rather than "Deriving"?
Because it’s official place in the documentation at https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/generics.html#extens... is in Docs » 6. Language extensions » 6.19. Miscellaneous » 6.19.3. Generic programming
What is the difference between "Other" and "Misc"?
Miscellaneous is when I find the extension in https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/misc.html Other is when my script can’t make sense of which section it belongs to. This happens when the documentation isn’t grouped under a dedicated header; for example https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/ffi.html#extension-F... has Docs » 6. Language extensions » 6.17. Foreign function interface (FFI) I guess in that case I should try to take the title of that section… … done, no Other shows up any more. It would be helpful if GHC would publish a fully machine-readable file with all the meta data about extensions: * Name * Since which version * Category * Link to docs * Implied extensions * Part of Haskell98? Part of Haskell2010? Part of the “default set”? Until we have that, I guess I'll continue scraping the `.rst` files. Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/