[Haskell-cafe] Error in the GHC documentation for the IsList class ?

[Joachim Breitner]

HI,

Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2014, 15:05 +0200 schrieb David Virebayre:
> In section 7.6.5.1, the documentation describes the IsList class, then
> goes on writing about a FromList class ( "The FromList class and its
> methods are intended to be used in conjunction with the
> OverloadedLists extension.")
> 
> Later it's written :
> 
> It is perfectly fine to declare new instances of IsList, so that list
> notation becomes useful for completely new data types. Here are
> several example instances:
> ...
> instance FromList [a] where

clearly a mistake; fixed in
http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/a107737f84f6738a9fa572ec9c5da49c9db8a8b5

Thanks for the report,
Joachim

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