[project @ 2001-08-23 15:34:49 by simonmar]

Note that support for generics is currently broken.

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.sgml
index 1374ac4..084eacf 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.sgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.sgml
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ Executive summary of our extensions:
     <varlistentry>
       <term>Generic classes:</term>
       <listitem>
+       <para>(Note: support for generic classes is currently broken
+        in GHC 5.02).</para>
+
        <para>Generic class declarations allow you to define a class
         whose methods say how to work over an arbitrary data type.
         Then it's really easy to make any new type into an instance of
@@ -3260,6 +3263,9 @@ program even if fusion doesn't happen.  More rules in <filename>PrelList.lhs</fi
 <sect1 id="generic-classes">
 <title>Generic classes</title>
 
+    <para>(Note: support for generic classes is currently broken in
+    GHC 5.02).</para>
+
 <para>
 The ideas behind this extension are described in detail in "Derivable type classes",
 Ralf Hinze and Simon Peyton Jones, Haskell Workshop, Montreal Sept 2000, pp94-105.