From 3a8b769484788cb3874e9c695543712eb3330b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Marlow Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:41:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] move the doc for 'Char' to its new home in ghc-prim:GHC.Types --- GHC/Base.lhs | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/GHC/Base.lhs b/GHC/Base.lhs index 18d531a..f616b0e 100644 --- a/GHC/Base.lhs +++ b/GHC/Base.lhs @@ -439,19 +439,6 @@ otherwise = True -- type String = [Char] -{-| The character type 'Char' is an enumeration whose values represent -Unicode (or equivalently ISO\/IEC 10646) characters -(see 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). -A character literal in Haskell has type 'Char'. - -To convert a 'Char' to or from the corresponding 'Int' value defined -by Unicode, use 'Prelude.toEnum' and 'Prelude.fromEnum' from the -'Prelude.Enum' class respectively (or equivalently 'ord' and 'chr'). --} - {-# RULES "x# `eqChar#` x#" forall x#. x# `eqChar#` x# = True "x# `neChar#` x#" forall x#. x# `neChar#` x# = False -- 1.7.10.4