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--- a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
FFIGHCi support
Foreign Function InterfaceGHCi support
-
+
Introduction to GHCi
Let's start with an example GHCi session. You can fire up
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Prelude>
enter, GHCi will attempt to evaluate it.
-
+
Loading source files
Suppose we have the following Haskell source code, which we
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D.
-
+
Interactive evaluation at the prompt
When you type an expression at the prompt, GHCi immediately
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ $ ghci -lm
:continue
:continue
- Shortcut to :breakpoint continue
+ Shortcut to :breakpoint continue
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ Local bindings in scope:
qsort2.hs:2:15-46>
What is happening here is that GHCi has interrupted the evaluation of
- qsort
at the breakpoint set in line 2, as the prompt indicates.
+ qsort at the breakpoint set in line 2, as the prompt indicates.
At this point you can freely explore the contents of the bindings in scope,
but with two catches.
First, take into account that due to the lazy nature of Haskell, some of
@@ -1631,9 +1631,9 @@ qsort2.hs:2:15-46>
trigger a computation.
Second: look at the types of the things in scope.
GHCi has left its types parameterised by a variable!
- Look at the type of qsort
, which is
+ Look at the type of qsort, which is
polymorphic on the type of its argument. It does not
- tell us really what the types of x
and xs
can be.
+ tell us really what the types of x and xs can be.
In general, polymorphic programs deal with polymorphic values,
and this means that some of the bindings available in a breakpoint site
will be parametrically typed.
@@ -1644,11 +1644,11 @@ qsort2.hs:2:15-46>
This is useful because you cannot just type x in the
prompt and expect GHCi to return you its value. Perhaps you know for
sure that
- x is of type Int
, which is an instance of
- Show
, but GHCi does not have this information.
- :print
however is fine, because it does not need to know the
+ x is of type Int, which is an instance of
+ Show, but GHCi does not have this information.
+ :print however is fine, because it does not need to know the
type to do its work.
- Let's go on with the debugging session of the qsort
+ Let's go on with the debugging session of the qsort
example:
A short debugging session
@@ -1674,22 +1674,22 @@ x :: Int
GHCi reminds us that this value is untyped, and instructs us to force its evaluation
- This line forces the evaluation of x
+ This line forces the evaluation of x
Even though x has been evaluated, we cannot simply use its name to see its value!
This is a bit counterintuitive, but currently in GHCi the type of a binding
- cannot be a type variable a
.
- Thus, the binding x
gets assigned the concrete type Unknown.
+ cannot be a type variable a.
+ Thus, the binding x gets assigned the concrete type Unknown.
- We can explore x
using the :print
- command, which does find out that x
is of type Int and prints
+ We can explore x using the :print
+ command, which does find out that x is of type Int and prints
its value accordingly.
- :print also updates the type of x
with
- the most concrete type information available.
+ :print also updates the type of x with
+ the most concrete type information available.
The example shows the standard way to proceeed with polymorphic values in a breakpoint.
@@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ x :: Int
- are only available
+ Implicit parameters (see ) are only available
at the scope of a breakpoint if there is a explicit type signature.
@@ -1804,13 +1804,13 @@ x :: Int
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fdebugging #-}
- * Repeated use of seq
and
+ * Repeated use of seq and
:print may be necessary to observe unevaluated
untyped bindings
see
- * GHC.Exts.unsafeCoerce
can help if you are positive about the type of a binding
+ * GHC.Exts.unsafeCoerce can help if you are positive about the type of a binding
type MyLongType a = [Maybe [Maybe a]]
@@ -1828,8 +1828,8 @@ Main.hs:15> x'
* The undocumented (and unsupported) :force command
equivalent to :print with automatic
- seq
forcing,
- may prove useful to replace sequences of seq
and
+ seq forcing,
+ may prove useful to replace sequences of seq and
:print in some situations.
@@ -1975,7 +1975,7 @@ Main.hs:15> x'
I can't use Control-C to interrupt computations in
GHCi on Windows.
- See .
+ See