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authorIvan-Yudin <yudinivan@yahoo.de>2020-05-10 12:37:31 -0400
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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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@@ -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: