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Improve Chain Documentation #4386

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Improve Chain Documentation #4386

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@reardonj reardonj commented Feb 1, 2023

This PR updates the Chain documentation to include links to API docs & other sections of the local site, as part of #2862

  • adds Laika configuration to build.sbt to use its API link feature
  • adds an mdoc variable to point to the API doc base URL. This is a workaround, because Laika can't link to NonEmptyChain, which is an alias for NonEmptyChainImpl.
  • Updates the Chain documentation to include links to other documentation pages & to API pages. References to types in the cats documentation are updated to point to those pages. References to undocumented types & scala base library types point to the API docs instead. The first reference to Chain & NonEmptyChain point to their API documentation.
  • Adds some headers to the Ior page to enable linking to its section about NonEmptyChain
  • Moves the How it Works and benchmarks sections to the bottom of the document. This is subjective, but in the current docs, there is a reference to NonEmptyChain just before it goes into all the benchmarks, but we don't actually find the Nec documentation until the end of the page. Moving the Nec section before these ones makes more sense to me as documentation for people just trying to use the type.
  • Misc. typo and spelling fixes.

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reardonj commented Feb 1, 2023

I see git diff handles the section reorg poorly. I can back out that part if that eases review.

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docs/datatypes/chain.md
NonEmptyChain.fromChainAppend(Chain.empty[Int], 1)
NonEmptyChain.fromChainPrepend(1, Chain(2, 3))
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[nec]: @API_LINK_BASE@/cats/data/index.html#NonEmptyChain:cats.data.NonEmptyChainImpl.type
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This is what the mdoc var is for. Laika can't link to this, but this seemed like a reasonable approximation of linking without hardcoding too much.

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Laika's own ${vars} also don't work in links, I tried that first 🤷‍♂️

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Laika can't link to this

If you have a moment, might be good to open an issue for this in Laika.

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- note that concat is also constant time
- add mention of groupByNec since it does exist, but it has no scaladoc
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- add a little more meat to the intro paragraph
- add header for the motivation section
- call out Chain being a binary tree
- typos and formatting
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@armanbilge armanbilge changed the title Improve Chain Documentation Improve Chain Documentation Feb 4, 2023
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reardonj commented Feb 5, 2023

I figured out you can make the API link say something other than "Chain", so we can put a marked API link. With latest commit it looks like this:
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It's also possible to tuck it above the title:
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It could also get put in a 'See Also' section at the bottom of the page, but that's much less discoverable.

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Overall LGTM, thanks for all your work on this, including the new benchmarks!

docs/datatypes/chain.md
NonEmptyChain.fromChainAppend(Chain.empty[Int], 1)
NonEmptyChain.fromChainPrepend(1, Chain(2, 3))
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[nec]: @API_LINK_BASE@/cats/data/index.html#NonEmptyChain:cats.data.NonEmptyChainImpl.type
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Laika can't link to this

If you have a moment, might be good to open an issue for this in Laika.

docs/datatypes/chain.md
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Well, `Vector` has its own problems and in this case it's unfortunately not that much faster than `List` at all. You can check [this blog post](http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BenchmarkingScalaCollections.html#vectors-are-ok) by Li Haoyi for some deeper insight into `Vector`'s issues.

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I'm not sure how relevant that blog post is for the 2.13 collections Vector. Maybe to 2.12, not sure.

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It will be interesting to see how relevant Chain remains after 2.13.11 Vector updates.

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Anyone have new thoughts on this? Otherwise I'll merge in a day or two, it's just docs after all.

Edit: where by "just" I mean it's not going to affect our compatibility guarantees 😜

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- this link is not working. When embedded in the markdown link, Chain loses capitalization, and gets redirected.
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Anyone have new thoughts on this? Otherwise I'll merge in a day or two, it's just docs after all.

Edit: where by "just" I mean it's not going to affect our compatibility guarantees 😜

Was starting on the links for other pages today, and I can't get the link format I was using before to work :S

This is the best I can do without having to link manually:
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Thank you so much for your on-going work on Cats Docs 🥰

@armanbilge armanbilge merged commit 52c58d2 into typelevel:main Feb 21, 2023
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