[commit: ghc] master: Mention that the user has to import GHC.Exts for Constraint (5c904ba)
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On branch : master
Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/5c904ba055147e0a71d5b200c8886ef0b1a47794/ghc
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commit 5c904ba055147e0a71d5b200c8886ef0b1a47794
Author: Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
Date: Sun Nov 24 19:38:08 2013 +0000
Mention that the user has to import GHC.Exts for Constraint
(required judging from confusion on #haskell right now.)
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5c904ba055147e0a71d5b200c8886ef0b1a47794
docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
index 5c4b091..1366197 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
@@ -6387,9 +6387,10 @@ class (F a ~ b) => C a b where
type <literal>(Show a, Ord a)</literal> is of kind <literal>Constraint</literal>.
</listitem>
<listitem>
- Anything whose form is not yet know, but the user has declared to have kind <literal>Constraint</literal>.
- So for example <literal>type Foo (f :: * -> Constraint) = forall b. f b => b -> b</literal> is allowed, as
- well as examples involving type families:
+ Anything whose form is not yet know, but the user has declared to have kind <literal>Constraint</literal>
+ (for which they need to import it from <literal>GHC.Exts</literal>). So for example
+ <literal>type Foo (f :: * -> Constraint) = forall b. f b => b -> b</literal> is allowed, as well as
+ examples involving type families:
<programlisting>
type family Typ a b :: Constraint
type instance Typ Int b = Show b
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