On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Andrew Coppin
Dominic Steinitz wrote:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-strict
Ooo... looks interesting. Pity I can't look at any documentation for it. (Is that *really* Haddoc failing with a parse error on a pragma? Surely not...) I'll take a look at this.
Yeah, I just ran into that myself, and "solved" it by removing the haddock comments for those types. I think Haddock is a bit oversensitive when it comes to parsing. It would be nice if it would at least try to continue when it failed to parse something. Of course, that might be easier said than done! While I'm on the subject, what is the future for binary-strict? I recently wanted it since I wanted to catch parse errors, but didn't wind up using it because I would have had to rewrite a whole bunch of Binary instances to be separate Binary.Put Binary.Strict.Get instances, and I'm lazy. So I did 'length (show result) `seq` return result" which doesn't win any beauty contests but seems to work. Inclusion in the official Data.Binary would be nice, especially if it could be a drop-in replacement, say by changing the Data.Binary instance definitions to Strict.Binary or something.