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authorBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>2016-01-04 16:42:08 +0100
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2016-01-04 16:42:21 +0100
commitda0f04305d7bdc172f7a7a7b73f171b83acca87f (patch)
treeb13ead9a9c5651a3cbf3f40b6e2191d052804c05
parent7e599f53e12e97a7e043919cd0d8b96f11bb18c0 (diff)
downloadhaskell-da0f04305d7bdc172f7a7a7b73f171b83acca87f.tar.gz
Rewrite Haddocks for GHC.Base.const
Test Plan: Read it Reviewers: austin, hvr, #core_libraries_committee Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1720 GHC Trac Issues: #11314
-rw-r--r--libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
index 92a1ac39f7..1f989c4168 100644
--- a/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
@@ -1023,7 +1023,12 @@ breakpointCond _ r = r
data Opaque = forall a. O a
--- | Constant function.
+-- | @const x@ is a unary function which evaluates to @x@ for all inputs.
+--
+-- For instance,
+--
+-- >>> map (const 42) [0..3]
+-- [42,42,42,42]
const :: a -> b -> a
const x _ = x