Prelude and (:) and []((:), []) bugs?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

The Report quite deliberately does not allow you to write
the type constructors for built-in syntax in import or export lists.
The idea is that the types
	[Int]
and	[] Int

always mean "list of Int" regardless of what module fiddling
you have done.  So [] is not an ordinary type constructor, to=20
be imported or hidden at will.  It always means "list as defined
in the Prelude".

I'll add a paragraph to 4.1.2 to make this explicit.

Simon


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ian Lynagh [mailto:igloo@earth.li]=20
| Sent: 19 September 2001 13:14
| To: haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: Prelude and (:) and []((:), []) bugs?
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| As far as I can tell, the report doesn't allow (:) or []((:),=20
| []) in the export list, yet the hugs prelude has the first=20
| and the GHC prelude has the second. Have I missed something=20
| that allows them or is this a bug in the preludes or the report?
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| Thanks
| Ian
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