RE: end of an era

Doug

I think that would be incredibly helpful, thank you!  Not meddling; rather contributing.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Doug McIlroy [mailto:[email protected]]
| Sent: 06 December 2012 17:05
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: [email protected]
| Subject: Re: end of an era
| 
| This may not be exactly in the main line of GHC business, but it's a job
| that I've been thinking about volunteering for:
| improving the documentation of the base library.  What I see as
| difficult about this is that much comes from Haddock, and that means
| tinkering with the library source, which is somnewhat risky even though
| supposedly no code is touched.
| 
| It also means that when stuff is unduly complicated to explain, or
| simply the result of accident (like the order in which a set is
| presented), I see the job as entailing advocacy for possible changes in
| specification.
| 
| For an example of the kinds of improvements I have in mind, see my
| recent haskell-prime post (which alas evoked no response):
| http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2012-December/003767.html
| 
| Would my jumping in here be useful? Would meddling per the previous
| paragraph be welcome?
| 
| Doug McIlroy