[GHC] #8888: Document Coercible in user's guide
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#8888: Document Coercible in user's guide
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Reporter: goldfire | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.1
Component: Documentation | Version: 7.8.1-rc2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown
Test Case: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Related Tickets:
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Comment (by nomeata):
> And, despite its unique weirdness, there is no comment with
ghcPrimExports.
Added.
> None of this happens for (~). Why it needed for Coercible?
Hmm. Good question. I believe that `(~)` needs to not to be importable at
all (it is handled by the Parser). Also commented in the Note.
> There may be some Deep Reason for all this strangeness, but I can't see
it.
It is just what happened to work and seems reasonable, starting with the
example of `(~)`. Quite likely that a less strange implementation is
possible (with little change to make sure haddock and ghci use the updated
kind); I do not know my way around all related parts of the compiler yet.
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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8888#comment:8>
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