three dots of :browse

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Samstag 24 April 2010 07:07:15 schrieb Kazu Yamamoto:
> Hello,
>
> If I use :browse a module with GHC 6.12, it sometimes displays
> garbage. Here is an example:
>
> Prelude> :browse Data.IP
> data AddrRange a
>   = iproute-0.2.0:Data.IP.Range.AddrRange {addr :: a,
>                                            mask :: a,
>                                            mlen :: Int}
> (snip)
> data AddrRange a
>   = iproute-0.2.0:Data.IP.Range.AddrRange {..., mask :: a, ...}
> data AddrRange a
>   = iproute-0.2.0:Data.IP.Range.AddrRange {..., mlen :: Int}
>
>
> "..." is the garbage. Due to this, I cannot parse the output of
>
> :browse. This is not displayed with GHC 6.10.
>
> Q1) What is the intention of "..."?
> Q2) How to prevent it so that I can obtain output which I can parse?

Perhaps

*Test> :browse! Test
-- defined locally
data R = R {x :: Char, y :: Int, z :: Float}
R :: Char -> Int -> Float -> R
x :: R -> Char
y :: R -> Int
z :: R -> Float

is the answer?

>
> --Kazu