baffling manual sections

[Jason Dusek]

2009/05/20 Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>:
> | I'm a little puzzled by these seeming duplicate pages in the
> | manual:
> |
> |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/type-extensions.html
> |
> |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/data-type-extensions.html
>
> The former is garbage. It's part of an *earlier* iteration of
> the HEAD user manual, left around by mistake.
>
> | They give slightly different section numbers to similar stuff.
> | The former page also has a curious discussion of standalone
> | deriving with a `for` keyword:
> |
> |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/type-extensions.html#stand-alone-deriving
>
> Same problem. Standalone deriving is described here...

  I found it linked from the wiki page on stand-alone deriving
  (which also happens to have the offending sytnax).

--
Jason Dusek


 |...the wiki page on stand-alone deriving...|
  http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=GHC/Stand-alone_deriving_declarations&action=history