[commit: ghc] wip/type-app: Release note (9f35dd5)

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On branch  : wip/type-app
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/9f35dd5ea72df8c7dfb56a5d86b2401163ea7d74/ghc

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commit 9f35dd5ea72df8c7dfb56a5d86b2401163ea7d74
Author: Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
Date:   Fri Aug 7 08:13:54 2015 -0400

    Release note


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9f35dd5ea72df8c7dfb56a5d86b2401163ea7d74
 docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml
index b026507..b80db1d 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@
             </listitem>
 	    <listitem>
 	      <para>
+		GHC now supports visible type application, allowing programmers
+		to easily specify how type parameters should be instantiated
+		when calling a function. See <xref linkend="visible-type-application"/> for the details.
+	      </para>
+	    </listitem>
+	    <listitem>
+	      <para>
 		To conform to the common case, the default role assigned to parameters
 		of datatypes declared in <literal>hs-boot</literal> files is
 		<literal>representational</literal>. However, if the constructor(s)



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