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| author | Joshua Price <joshprice247@gmail.com> | 2019-05-19 14:40:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-05-27 10:06:28 -0400 |
| commit | 3f6e5b976fe6bcb61aa44a4467e8f94841e979cf (patch) | |
| tree | e1b50faff0421022e75ad6980f6a60afd7b0302d /docs/users_guide/bugs.rst | |
| parent | dcd843accc5554e1401987f1e7461dd836223daa (diff) | |
| download | haskell-3f6e5b976fe6bcb61aa44a4467e8f94841e979cf.tar.gz | |
Correct the large tuples section in user's guide
Fixes #16644.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/bugs.rst b/docs/users_guide/bugs.rst index 9222a68b15..6ce5796f6d 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/bugs.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/bugs.rst @@ -312,14 +312,6 @@ Multiply-defined array elements not checked In ``Prelude`` support ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Arbitrary-sized tuples - Tuples are currently limited to size 100. However, standard - instances for tuples (``Eq``, ``Ord``, ``Bounded``, ``Ix``, ``Read``, - and ``Show``) are available *only* up to 16-tuples. - - This limitation is easily subvertible, so please ask if you get - stuck on it. - ``splitAt`` semantics ``Data.List.splitAt`` is more strict than specified in the Report. Specifically, the Report specifies that :: @@ -481,6 +473,14 @@ Unchecked floating-point arithmetic .. index:: single: floating-point exceptions. +Large tuple support + The Haskell Report only requires implementations to provide tuple + types and their accompanying standard instances up to size 15. GHC + limits the size of tuple types to 62 and provides instances of + ``Eq``, ``Ord``, ``Bounded``, ``Read``, and ``Show`` for tuples up + to size 15. However, ``Ix`` instances are provided only for tuples + up to size 5. + .. _bugs: Known bugs or infelicities |