BirdPP: A preprocessor for Bird-style Literate Haskell comments with Haddock markup.

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Literate preprocessor that allows intuitive Haddock comments.

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Versions [RSS]	1.0, 1.1
Dependencies	base (>=2 && <4), haskell98 [details]
License	LicenseRef-GPL
Author	Sean McLaughlin
Maintainer	seanmcl@gmail.com
Category	Development
Bug tracker	http://github.com/seanmcl/BirdPP/issues
Uploaded	by SeanMcLaughlin at 2012-08-02T16:36:38Z
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Executables	BirdPP
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Using Haddock markup with Literate Haskell commenting style doesn't 
currently work.  For instance, to get Haddock markup in an lhs file:

comments
comments

> code

comments

you'd need to write:

> -- | comments
> -- comments

> code

> -- | comments

This clearly defeats the purpose of Literate Haskell.  BirdPP is
a preprocessor that works with GHC so you can write what you want:


| comments
comments

> code

| comments

Compilation of this package will give you an executable called
bunlit.  This can be used by ghc using the option -pgmL BirdPP.
E.g.

ghc -pgmL BirdPP --make Main.lhs