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commit eb8bc4dadb767729ae267db7ec7d3bee29f48463
Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date: Mon Mar 28 15:40:34 2016 +0200
users-guide: Wibbles
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eb8bc4dadb767729ae267db7ec7d3bee29f48463
docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst
index 0735cfc..b828ef6 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst
@@ -656,6 +656,8 @@ n+k patterns
.. ghc-flag:: -XNPlusKPatterns
+ :since: 6.12
+
Enable use of ``n+k`` patterns.
.. _recursive-do-notation:
@@ -1195,6 +1197,12 @@ Monad comprehensions
.. index::
single: monad comprehensions
+.. ghc-flag:: -XMonadComprehensions
+
+ :since: 7.2
+
+ Enable list comprehension syntax for arbitrary monads.
+
Monad comprehensions generalise the list comprehension notation,
including parallel comprehensions (:ref:`parallel-list-comprehensions`)
and transform comprehensions (:ref:`generalised-list-comprehensions`) to
@@ -1262,7 +1270,7 @@ Monad comprehensions support:
return y)
return (x+y)
-All these features are enabled by default if the ``MonadComprehensions``
+All these features are enabled by default if the :ghc-flag:`-XMonadComprehensions`
extension is enabled. The types and more detailed examples on how to use
comprehensions are explained in the previous chapters
:ref:`generalised-list-comprehensions` and
@@ -1273,14 +1281,14 @@ comprehensions.
.. note::
Even though most of these examples are using the list monad, monad
comprehensions work for any monad. The ``base`` package offers all
- necessary instances for lists, which make ``MonadComprehensions``
+ necessary instances for lists, which make :ghc-flag:`-XMonadComprehensions`
backward compatible to built-in, transform and parallel list
comprehensions.
More formally, the desugaring is as follows. We write ``D[ e | Q]`` to
mean the desugaring of the monad comprehension ``[ e | Q]``:
-::
+.. code-block:: none
Expressions: e
Declarations: d
@@ -1483,6 +1491,8 @@ Tuple sections
.. ghc-flag:: -XTupleSections
+ :since: 6.12
+
Allow the use of tuple section syntax
The :ghc-flag:`-XTupleSections` flag enables Python-style partially applied
@@ -1746,6 +1756,8 @@ Safe imports
-XUnsafe
:noindex:
+ :since: 7.2
+
Declare the Safe Haskell state of the current module.
With the :ghc-flag:`-XSafe`, :ghc-flag:`-XTrustworthy` and :ghc-flag:`-XUnsafe`
@@ -2380,6 +2392,8 @@ Declaring data types with explicit constructor signatures
.. ghc-flag:: -XGADTSyntax
+ :since: 7.2
+
Allow the use of GADT syntax in data type definitions (but not GADTs
themselves; for this see :ghc-flag:`-XGADTs`)
@@ -3268,18 +3282,26 @@ Deriving instances of extra classes (``Data``, etc.)
.. ghc-flag:: -XDeriveGeneric
+ :since: 7.2
+
Allow automatic deriving of instances for the ``Generic`` typeclass.
.. ghc-flag:: -XDeriveFunctor
+ :since: 6.12
+
Allow automatic deriving of instances for the ``Functor`` typeclass.
.. ghc-flag:: -XDeriveFoldable
+ :since: 6.12
+
Allow automatic deriving of instances for the ``Foldable`` typeclass.
.. ghc-flag:: -XDeriveTraversable
+ :since: 6.12
+
:implies: :ghc-flag:`-XDeriveFoldable`, :ghc-flag:`-XDeriveFunctor`
Allow automatic deriving of instances for the ``Traversable`` typeclass.
@@ -4554,6 +4576,8 @@ Default method signatures
.. ghc-flag:: -XDefaultSignatures
+ :since: 7.2
+
Allows the definition of default method signatures in class definitions.
Haskell 98 allows you to define a default implementation when declaring
@@ -7109,7 +7133,7 @@ See also :ghc-ticket:`7347`.
Kind polymorphism and Type-in-Type
==================================
-.. ghc-flag: -XTypeInType
+.. ghc-flag:: -XTypeInType
:implies: :ghc-flag:`-XPolyKinds`, :ghc-flag:`-XDataKinds`, :ghc-flag:`-XKindSignatures`
:since: 8.0.1
@@ -8048,6 +8072,8 @@ Explicit universal quantification (forall)
.. ghc-flag:: -XExplicitForAll
+ :since: 6.12
+
Allow use of the ``forall`` keyword in places where universal quantification
is implicit.
@@ -8587,6 +8613,8 @@ Let-generalisation
.. ghc-flag:: -XMonoLocalBinds
+ :since: 6.12
+
Infer less polymorphic types for local bindings by default.
An ML-style language usually generalises the type of any ``let``\-bound or
@@ -8938,7 +8966,6 @@ Arbitrary-rank polymorphism
.. ghc-flag:: -XRankNTypes
-
:implies: :ghc-flag:`-XExplicitForAll`
Allow types of arbitrary rank.
@@ -9874,12 +9901,13 @@ Syntax
.. ghc-flag:: -XTemplateHaskell
:implies: :ghc-flag:`-XTemplateHaskellQuotes`
- :since: 8.0.1
Enable Template Haskell's splice and quotation syntax.
.. ghc-flag:: -XTemplateHaskellQuotes
+ :since: 8.0.1
+
Enable only Template Haskell's quotation syntax.
Template Haskell has the following new syntactic constructions. You need to use
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