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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
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--- a/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
@@ -17,10 +17,18 @@
- GHC now handles impredicative polymorphism and there are
- changes to the way scoped type variables work; see
- Simon's e-mail
- for more details of the change, or for the documentation.
+ GHC now handles impredicative polymorphism; see .
+
+
+
+
+ There are significant changes to the way scoped type variables work,
+ and some programs that used to compile may no longer do so.
+ The new story is documented in .
+ ( Simon's e-mail
+ gives some background, but the user manual should be complete (tell
+ us if not), and
+ certainly takes precedence if there is any conflict.)
@@ -54,6 +62,11 @@
ignored in comments, so ASCII code with comments in, for
example, Latin-1 will also work.
+
+
+ A way to have Latin-1 source files pre-processed by GHC is
+ described in .
+
@@ -158,7 +171,6 @@
,
,
,
- ,
,
,
,
@@ -179,6 +191,16 @@
+ The
+
+ option is now called
+ .
+ (the old name is still accepted for backwards compatibility,
+ but will be removed in the future).
+
+
+
+
The
flag has been removed.
@@ -370,6 +392,23 @@
See for more information.
+
+
+ GHCi now has an :edit command which pops
+ up an editor on the most recently loaded file, or a
+ specified file. See for
+ more information.
+
+
+
+
+ GHCi now invokes print by default on the
+ result of IO actions and bindings at the prompt. This is
+ occasionally not what you want, so it can be disabled (at
+ least for bindings) with
+ :set -fno-print-bind-result. See .
+
@@ -395,7 +434,7 @@
- Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
+ Version number 2.1 (was 1.0).
@@ -496,8 +535,9 @@
GHC.Exts now provides a function
- lazy which forces GHC to think that its
- argument is lazy in its first argument.
+ lazy, where lazy f
+ behaves like f, except GHC is forced
+ to believe that it is lazy in its first argument.
For more details, see .
@@ -965,7 +1005,7 @@
- Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
+ Version number 2.1 (was 1.0).
@@ -1071,7 +1111,7 @@
- Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
+ Version number 2.1 (was 1.0).