10 Jan
2007
10 Jan
'07
8:51 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 21:58 -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
Suppose Haddock's documentation language ("-- | ...") were an extended form of a common wiki markup language, and specifically Wikimedia's, because the Haskell wiki uses it. Instead of converting to HTML, Haddock could then pass through most markup unchanged and make wiki links out of its current link markup (modules & entities).
Haddock is designed to be able to produce various different output formats. It'd be perfectly reasonable to add a wkik markup backend. There's nothing that special about the html backend, it's just the most mature and most used. Duncan