[commit: ghc] master: Mention that MR is off by default in GHCi in documentation (5bda0d0)

Arash Rouhani rarash at student.chalmers.se
Thu Feb 6 14:12:30 UTC 2014


I agree. It was unclear to me first what "it" referred to.

/Arash

On 2014-02-06 12:41, Gabor Greif wrote:
> It would be probably clearer to say
>
> "Since GHC 7.8.1, the monomorphism restriction is switched off by
> default in GHCi."
>
> This makes the awkward double-negation feeling go away.
> What do others think?
>
> Cheers,
>
>      Gabor
>
> On 2/6/14, git at git.haskell.org <git at git.haskell.org> wrote:
>> Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc
>>
>> On branch  : master
>> Link       :
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/5bda0d08d8fec86433917b65a93836d2372a5b5c/ghc
>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> commit 5bda0d08d8fec86433917b65a93836d2372a5b5c
>> Author: Krzysztof Gogolewski <krz.gogolewski at gmail.com>
>> Date:   Wed Feb 5 20:40:13 2014 +0100
>>
>>      Mention that MR is off by default in GHCi in documentation
>>
>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> 5bda0d08d8fec86433917b65a93836d2372a5b5c
>>   docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml |    3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
>> b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
>> index a3913cc..1564f38 100644
>> --- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
>> +++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
>> @@ -7862,7 +7862,8 @@ scope over the methods defined in the
>> <literal>where</literal> part.  For exampl
>>   4.5.5</ulink>
>>   of the Haskell Report)
>>   can be completely switched off by
>> -<option>-XNoMonomorphismRestriction</option>.
>> +<option>-XNoMonomorphismRestriction</option>. Since GHC 7.8.1, it is
>> +switched off by default in GHCi.
>>   </para>
>>   </sect3>
>>
>>
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