RE: Haddock chokes on '#'

On 11 February 2005 17:44, Peter Simons wrote:

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module Test where

-- |Haddock chokes on this.

(#) :: a -> (a -> b) -> b a # f = f a

with Haddock 0.6 gives an error:

| haddock test.hs | test.hs:5:3: Parse error

Since GHC deals with this code just fine, I suppose this is a bug.

Haddock parses GHC extensions by default, so its syntax corresponds to GHC with -fglasgow-exts. This could be considered a bug, but it probably won't get fixed (unless someone sends me a patch...). Cheers, Simon