Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:59:53AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Nevertheless we should move towards specifying everything about a flag in > one place. I think Ian had some thoughts along those lines? Right, we have a ticket for that: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1880 Some of

RE: Docs for language flags

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Claus Reinke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 28 August 2008 12:28 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Ian Lynagh; Simon Marlow | Cc: cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Docs for language flags | | | This is the first time I've looked at (b), so I don't mind it going, | | but the syntax info deserves

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-28 Thread Claus Reinke
| This is the first time I've looked at (b), so I don't mind it going, | but the syntax info deserves its own section, to be easy to find | without blowing up the flag reference section. Interesting. Any suggestions about where would be "easy to find"? Or what the section would look like. Woul

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Ian, Simon The documentation for language extensions appears in GHC's user manual in *three* places: (a) The flag summary http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html#id352860 (b) A section at the beginning of Chapter 8: http://www.ha

RE: Docs for language flags

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| This is the first time I've looked at (b), so I don't mind it going, | but the syntax info deserves its own section, to be easy to find | without blowing up the flag reference section. Interesting. Any suggestions about where would be "easy to find"? Or what the section would look like. Would

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Claus Reinke
This is the first time I've looked at (b), so I don't mind it going, but the syntax info deserves its own section, to be easy to find without blowing up the flag reference section. I just wanted to throw in a reference to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1880 Unify flag descrip

RE: Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:43 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > | The documentation should also appear in: > | > | > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.4.0.1/doc/html/Language-Haskell-Extension.html > | > | It might be easier if the information was duplicated there, as then it > |

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Neil Mitchell
> | It might be easier if the information was duplicated there, as then it > | would be hoogle-able (although making the GHC manual hoogle-able is on > | the Hoogle bug list > > I don't know how it gets there... GHC might have more extensions than Cabal > for > example? Anyway, I'm perhaps-selfi

RE: Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| The documentation should also appear in: | | http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.4.0.1/doc/html/Language-Haskell-Extension.html | | It might be easier if the information was duplicated there, as then it | would be hoogle-able (although making the GHC manual hoogle-able is on | th

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi > The documentation for language extensions appears in GHC's user manual in > *three* places: > > (a) The flag summary > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html#id352860 > > (b) A section at the beginning of Chapter 8: > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/lat

Docs for language flags

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian, Simon The documentation for language extensions appears in GHC's user manual in *three* places: (a) The flag summary http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html#id352860 (b) A section at the beginning of Chapter 8: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/ht