baffling manual sections

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed May 20 11:32:12 EDT 2009


Aha. Could you find a moment to fix the wiki page?  It's a wiki.

thanks

S


| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-
| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jason Dusek
| Sent: 20 May 2009 14:44
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: baffling manual sections
|
| 2009/05/20 Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>:
| > | I'm a little puzzled by these seeming duplicate pages in the
| > | manual:
| > |
| > |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/type-extensions.html
| > |
| > |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/data-type-
| extensions.html
| >
| > The former is garbage. It's part of an *earlier* iteration of
| > the HEAD user manual, left around by mistake.
| >
| > | They give slightly different section numbers to similar stuff.
| > | The former page also has a curious discussion of standalone
| > | deriving with a `for` keyword:
| > |
| > |   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/type-
| extensions.html#stand-alone-deriving
| >
| > Same problem. Standalone deriving is described here...
|
|   I found it linked from the wiki page on stand-alone deriving
|   (which also happens to have the offending sytnax).
|
| --
| Jason Dusek
|
|
|  |...the wiki page on stand-alone deriving...|
|   http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=GHC/Stand-
| alone_deriving_declarations&action=history
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