Again: Uniques in GHC
Johan Tibell
johan.tibell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 10:06:43 UTC 2014
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, <p.k.f.holzenspies at utwente.nl> wrote:
> - The export-list of Unique has some comments stating that function X is
> only exported for module Y, yet is used elsewhere. This may be because
> these comments do not show up in haddock etc. leading some people to think
> they're up for general use. In my refactoring, I'm sticking the restriction
> in the function name, so it's no longer mkUniqueGrimily, but rather
> mkUniqueOnlyForUniqSupply (making the name even longer should discourage
> their use more). If at all possible, these should be removed altogether
> asap.
>
Since you're touching this code base it would be a terrific time to add
some Haddocks! (We recently decided, on the ghc-devs@ list, that all new
top-level entities, i.e. functions, data types, and classes, should have
Haddocks.)
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