On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:02:45AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
I'm making some changes to the way Haddock creates links, and I'd like to solicit comments on possible alternatives.
The existing approach is for each non-locally-defined identifier in the current module, we hyperlink to a module that it was imported from, and that (a) actually documents the identifer, and (b) isn't hidden.
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So the new approach is to try to build up a global table of the "best" destinations to link to for each entity. The question is how to determine "best". Here's my first stab:
- A is better than B if A directly or indirectly imports B
Perhaps it should be the other way round: the lowest non-hidden module that exports the name (if more than one such, fix on one). This would need most of GHC.* hidden, which is desirable anyway.