[project @ 2002-09-16 11:24:20 by simonpj]

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diff --git a/GHC/Base.lhs b/GHC/Base.lhs
index e3bc346..fe42991 100644 (file)
--- a/GHC/Base.lhs
+++ b/GHC/Base.lhs
@@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ lazy x = x
 
 -- Assertion function. This simply ignores its boolean argument.
 -- The compiler may rewrite it to (assertError line)
+--     SLPJ: in 5.04 etc 'assert' is in GHC.Prim,
+--     but from Template Haskell onwards it's simply
+--     defined here in Base.lhs
 assert :: Bool -> a -> a
 assert pred r = r