[commit: ghc] master: Don't use "character" in haddocks of Char (effcd56)
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Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/effcd565b6be4f945d3913d561bba515381405ed/ghc
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commit effcd565b6be4f945d3913d561bba515381405ed
Author: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss at gmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 29 23:33:03 2017 -0400
Don't use "character" in haddocks of Char
Character is a terribly overloaded term and may refer to graphemes or
code points. Specifically say that Char represents Unicode code points.
[skip ci]
Test Plan: Read it.
Reviewers: hvr, austin
Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4051
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effcd565b6be4f945d3913d561bba515381405ed
libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Types.hs | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Types.hs b/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Types.hs
index 3756c58..215f96c 100644
--- a/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Types.hs
+++ b/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Types.hs
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ data Ordering = LT | EQ | GT
********************************************************************* -}
{- | The character type 'Char' is an enumeration whose values represent
-Unicode (or equivalently ISO\/IEC 10646) characters (see
+Unicode (or equivalently ISO\/IEC 10646) code points (i.e. characters, see
<http://www.unicode.org/> for details). This set extends the ISO 8859-1
(Latin-1) character set (the first 256 characters), which is itself an extension
of the ASCII character set (the first 128 characters). A character literal in
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