From 3eeeb57d95c6a218ce457f85e1f5b3511057101f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "simonpj@microsoft.com" Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:32:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a clarification about overlapping instances in the manual --- docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml index 3801f96..6b41b39 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml @@ -2107,7 +2107,9 @@ can be modified by two flags: and -fallow-incoherent-instances -, as this section discusses. +, as this section discusses. Both these +flags are dynamic flags, and can be set on a per-module basis, using +an OPTIONS_GHC pragma if desired (). When GHC tries to resolve, say, the constraint C Int Bool, it tries to match every instance declaration against the -- 1.7.10.4