Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 09:40 +0100, David Waern wrote:

2009/2/6 Max Rabkin :

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM, David Waern wrote:

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As for running arbitrary commands, I think we are opening up to a lot of unfamiliar syntax. I'd like to hear what everyone thinks about that.

I personally find it useful to have Haddock comments readable in the source.

And aren't there security issues, too? So we'd have to have an option to disable them, which would have to be on by default, and basically they would be disabled by everybody but the writers of the comments themselves.

I think you can invoke any command using Setup.hs and Cabal already.

It's not a question of what's possible. It's a question of how hard it is to audit your code. Do I just have to read your build system (Setup.hs and its import tree, and maybe the Cabal file)? Or do I have to scan the source code for dubious constructs (unfortunately, we already have this issue with Template Haskell)? Most programs have source code that is much larger than their build systems. jcc