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| author | Richard Eisenberg <eir@cis.upenn.edu> | 2013-09-09 14:20:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Richard Eisenberg <eir@cis.upenn.edu> | 2013-09-09 16:10:47 -0400 |
| commit | c62a0b993989fc2271be34e2c05462b6c5bb0fa6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f167e23169ab4f6123027f234c441dd25fb9739 /docs | |
| parent | 72ceffe8e96c0ac3da49690097858bea79a704b6 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-c62a0b993989fc2271be34e2c05462b6c5bb0fa6.tar.gz | |
Revision to release notes for the new Typeable.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml index 15bf82bc68..e62082ac57 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml @@ -164,8 +164,15 @@ <listitem> <para> - TODO: mention new <literal>Typeable</literal> and - <literal>AutoDeriveTypeable</literal> + <literal>Typeable</literal> is now poly-kinded, making + <literal>Typeable1</literal>, <literal>Typeable2</literal>, + etc., obsolete, deprecated, and relegated to + <literal>Data.OldTypeable</literal>. Furthermore, user-written + instances of <literal>Typeable</literal> are now disallowed: + use <literal>deriving</literal> or the new extension + <literal>-XAutoDeriveTypeable</literal>, which will create + <literal>Typeable</literal> instances for every datatype + declared in the module. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> |