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| author | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> | 2012-12-11 09:20:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> | 2012-12-11 14:52:47 +0000 |
| commit | b0339aa1e298c700c849813fbd16b29c92e27055 (patch) | |
| tree | a646b31e12c82e3da36aaacad628dba2d09aae01 /docs | |
| parent | 31d8900dbcf87fc32ac9e3de2ea0ed2039e72ee4 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-b0339aa1e298c700c849813fbd16b29c92e27055.tar.gz | |
document special "this" syntax for PackageImports (#7409)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml | 3 |
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml index 6d549b88c8..825ef65c48 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml @@ -1999,6 +1999,9 @@ import "network" Network.Socket available from multiple packages, or is present in both the current package being built and an external package.</para> + <para>The special package name <literal>this</literal> can be used to + refer to the current package being built.</para> + <para>Note: you probably don't need to use this feature, it was added mainly so that we can build backwards-compatible versions of packages when APIs change. It can lead to fragile dependencies in |