minor errors in Haskell 2010 report

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 17:43:21 CEST 2012


On 22/08/2012 13:32, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> I recently read http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ and
> noticed a few minor issues in Chapter 5.
> Is it easy to correct them on that web page for future readers? If not,
> at least this may be useful for future reports.
> Apologies if these were known already.
>
> Section 5.2, the first sentence of list item 5 says "The form “module M”
> names the set of all entities that are in scope with both an unqualified
> name “e” and a qualified name “M.e”."
> It is not clear that "in scope" here really means "in scope and exported
> by module M".

The current text seems clear to me.  This is the *definition* of what is 
exported by module M, so referring to what is exported by module M 
within its own definition would be very confusing.

> Section 5.6.1 contains "These modules are not part of Haskell 98, and
> they cannot be imported separately."
> I suggest that the "98" be removed.

Thanks, someone else already pointed that out and I've fixed it in the 
sources.  The next revision will include the fix.

Cheers,
	Simon






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