On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:02:45AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > I'm making some changes to the way Haddock creates links, and I'd like > to solicit comments on possible alternatives. > > The existing approach is for each non-locally-defined identifier in the > current module, we hyperlink to a module that it was imported from, and > that (a) actually documents the identifer, and (b) isn't hidden. > > [...] > > So the new approach is to try to build up a global table of the "best" > destinations to link to for each entity. The question is how to > determine "best". Here's my first stab: > > - A is better than B if A directly or indirectly imports B
Perhaps it should be the other way round: the lowest non-hidden module that exports the name (if more than one such, fix on one). This would need most of GHC.* hidden, which is desirable anyway. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
