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| author | Ivan-Yudin <yudinivan@yahoo.de> | 2020-05-10 12:37:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-05-13 02:09:03 -0400 |
| commit | 266310c300f2254dfdeb5eb2123737f765ed18f8 (patch) | |
| tree | aa3288591b123ee81ac4fda6b3937be8ccaf09ac /docs/users_guide/ghci.rst | |
| parent | 9e4b981ff7a0852c7bdc93039eed13582d923241 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-266310c300f2254dfdeb5eb2123737f765ed18f8.tar.gz | |
doc: Reformulate the opening paragraph of Ch. 4 in User's guide
Removes mentioning of Hugs
(it is not helpful for new users anymore).
Changes the wording for the rest of the paragraph.
Fixes #18132.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/ghci.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/ghci.rst b/docs/users_guide/ghci.rst index 6fc62544c6..59d5a65423 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/ghci.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/ghci.rst @@ -7,23 +7,25 @@ Using GHCi single: GHCi single: interpreter single: interactive - single: Hugs single: Foreign Function Interface; GHCi support single: FFI; GHCi support -GHCi [1]_ is GHC's interactive environment, in which Haskell expressions -can be interactively evaluated and programs can be interpreted. If -you're familiar with `Hugs <http://www.haskell.org/hugs/>`__, then -you'll be right at home with GHCi. However, GHCi also has support for -interactively loading compiled code, as well as supporting all [2]_ the -language extensions that GHC provides. GHCi also includes an interactive +GHCi [1]_ is GHC's interactive environment that includes an interactive debugger (see :ref:`ghci-debugger`). +GHCi can + +- interactively evaluate Haskell expressions +- interpret Haskell programs +- load GHC-compiled modules. + +At the moment GHCi supports most of GHC's language extensions. + + .. [1] The "i" stands for “Interactive” -.. [2] - except ``foreign export``, at the moment + .. _ghci-introduction: |