Improve handling of newtypes (fixes Trac 1495)

[ghc-hetmet.git] / compiler / typecheck / TcDeriv.lhs

diff --git a/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.lhs b/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.lhs
index e79318b..f3224c8 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.lhs
+++ b/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.lhs
@@ -798,10 +798,10 @@ mkNewTypeEqn orig mayDeriveDataTypeable newtype_deriving tvs
                -- Want to drop 1 arg from (T s a) and (ST s a)
                -- to get       instance Monad (ST s) => Monad (T s)
 
-       -- Note [newtype representation]
-       -- Need newTyConRhs *not* newTyConRep to get the representation 
-       -- type, because the latter looks through all intermediate newtypes
-       -- For example
+       -- Note [Newtype representation]
+       -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+       -- Need newTyConRhs (*not* a recursive representation finder) 
+       -- to get the representation type. For example
        --      newtype B = MkB Int
        --      newtype A = MkA B deriving( Num )
        -- We want the Num instance of B, *not* the Num instance of Int,