[commit: ghc] master: Mention ByteString and Text to docs for OverloadedStrings (bd6a73b)

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 10:01:56 CEST 2011


Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/bd6a73b06aad1cf99ca8eca4dbd15b153ee147d4

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commit bd6a73b06aad1cf99ca8eca4dbd15b153ee147d4
Author: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 14 09:33:17 2011 +0100

    Mention ByteString and Text to docs for OverloadedStrings

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 docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
index 09a9062..16cc760 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
@@ -4343,7 +4343,8 @@ literals enabled (with <literal>-XOverloadedStrings</literal>)
  a string literal has type <literal>(IsString a) => a</literal>.
 </para>
 <para>
-This means that the usual string syntax can be used, e.g., for packed strings
+  This means that the usual string syntax can be used, e.g.,
+  for <literal>ByteString</literal>, <literal>Text</literal>,
 and other variations of string like types.  String literals behave very much
 like integer literals, i.e., they can be used in both expressions and patterns.
 If used in a pattern the literal with be replaced by an equality test, in the same





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