X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fusers_guide%2Fglasgow_exts.xml;h=aeb9314363d4d13e29ac04130b7d7642c0de7d60;hb=059f2d7be7cc02d093ce51f0bbd68f5e5ebe527d;hp=cacf97d7c2868ae975772c5e6f609a6327c38aea;hpb=bfd7960566a3033182087a411016a04bd74f5eed;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml index cacf97d..aeb9314 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml @@ -56,38 +56,7 @@ documentation describes all the libraries that come with GHC. The flag is equivalent to enabling the following extensions: - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - . + &what_glasgow_exts_does; Enabling these options is the only effect of . We are trying to move away from this portmanteau flag, @@ -110,7 +79,7 @@ While you really can use this stuff to write fast code, All these primitive data types and operations are exported by the library GHC.Prim, for which there is -detailed online documentation. +detailed online documentation. (This documentation is generated from the file compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp.) @@ -400,14 +369,6 @@ Indeed, the bindings can even be recursive. LEFTWARDS ARROW - - - .. - - 0x22EF - MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS - - @@ -826,10 +787,8 @@ let {(x -> y) = e1 ; (y -> x) = e2 } in x -(We may lift this -restriction in the future; the only cost is that type checking patterns -would get a little more complicated.) - +(For some amplification on this design choice see +Trac #4061.) @@ -911,7 +870,7 @@ it, you can use the flag. - + The recursive do-notation @@ -932,7 +891,7 @@ justOnes = do { rec { xs <- Just (1:xs) } As you can guess justOnes will evaluate to Just [-1,-1,-1,.... -The background and motivation for recusrive do-notation is described in +The background and motivation for recursive do-notation is described in A recursive do for Haskell, by Levent Erkok, John Launchbury, Haskell Workshop 2002, pages: 29-37. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. @@ -1047,7 +1006,7 @@ It supports rebindable syntax (see ). - Mdo-notation (deprecated) + Mdo-notation (deprecated) GHC used to support the flag , which enabled the keyword mdo, precisely as described in @@ -1697,7 +1656,7 @@ and the fixity declaration applies wherever the binding is in scope. For example, in a let, it applies in the right-hand sides of other let-bindings and the body of the letC. Or, in recursive do -expressions (), the local fixity +expressions (), the local fixity declarations of a let statement scope over other statements in the group, just as the bound name does. @@ -1904,6 +1863,26 @@ not * then an explicit kind annotation must be used Nevertheless, they can be useful when defining "phantom types". + +Data type contexts + +Haskell allows datatypes to be given contexts, e.g. + + +data Eq a => Set a = NilSet | ConsSet a (Set a) + + +give constructors with types: + + +NilSet :: Set a +ConsSet :: Eq a => a -> Set a -> Set a + + +In GHC this feature is an extension called +DatatypeContexts, and on by default. + + Infix type constructors, classes, and type variables @@ -7485,11 +7464,11 @@ Assertion failures can be caught, see the documentation for the A list of all supported language extensions can be obtained by invoking - ghc --supported-languages (see ). + ghc --supported-extensions (see ). Any extension from the Extension type defined in Language.Haskell.Extension + url="&libraryCabalLocation;/Language-Haskell-Extension.html">Language.Haskell.Extension may be used. GHC will report an error if any of the requested extensions are not supported. @@ -8780,7 +8759,7 @@ r) -> Special built-in functions GHC has a few built-in functions with special behaviour. These are now described in the module GHC.Prim +url="&libraryGhcPrimLocation;/GHC-Prim.html">GHC.Prim in the library documentation. @@ -9087,7 +9066,6 @@ standard behaviour.