[project @ 2005-10-05 13:15:44 by simonmar]

[haskell-directory.git] / GHC / Base.lhs

diff --git a/GHC/Base.lhs b/GHC/Base.lhs
index 5b6a676..8278dbb 100644 (file)
--- a/GHC/Base.lhs
+++ b/GHC/Base.lhs
@@ -362,8 +362,8 @@ augment g xs = g (:) xs
 "foldr/augment" forall k z xs (g::forall b. (a->b->b) -> b -> b) . 
                foldr k z (augment g xs) = g k (foldr k z xs)
 
-"foldr/id"                       foldr (:) [] = \x->x
-"foldr/app"            [1] forall xs ys. foldr (:) ys xs = xs ++ ys
+"foldr/id"                       foldr (:) [] = \x  -> x
+"foldr/app"            [1] forall ys. foldr (:) ys = \xs -> xs ++ ys
        -- Only activate this from phase 1, because that's
        -- when we disable the rule that expands (++) into foldr
 
@@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ data Ordering = LT | EQ | GT deriving (Eq, Ord)
 type String = [Char]
 
 {-| The character type 'Char' is an enumeration whose values represent
-Unicode (or equivalently ISO 10646) characters.
+Unicode (or equivalently ISO\/IEC 10646) characters
+(see <http://www.unicode.org/> for details).
 This set extends the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set
 (the first 256 charachers), which is itself an extension of the ASCII
 character set (the first 128 characters).
@@ -699,7 +700,8 @@ lazy x = x
 -- call to 'assert'.
 --
 -- Assertions can normally be turned on or off with a compiler flag
--- (for GHC, assertions are normally on unless the @-fignore-asserts@
+-- (for GHC, assertions are normally on unless optimisation is turned on 
+-- with @-O@ or the @-fignore-asserts@
 -- option is given).  When assertions are turned off, the first
 -- argument to 'assert' is ignored, and the second argument is
 -- returned as the result.