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Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs b/compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs index ec8d5a0afc..84210fb236 100644 --- a/compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs +++ b/compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs @@ -2817,7 +2817,11 @@ interactiveClassKeys = map getUnique interactiveClassNames * * ************************************************************************ -The following names should be considered by GHCi to be in scope always. +GHCi's :info command will usually filter out instances mentioning types whose +names are not in scope. GHCi makes an exception for some commonly used names, +such as Data.Kind.Type, which may not actually be in scope but should be +treated as though they were in scope. The list in the definition of +pretendNameIsInScope below contains these commonly used names. -} @@ -2825,5 +2829,6 @@ pretendNameIsInScope :: Name -> Bool pretendNameIsInScope n = any (n `hasKey`) [ liftedTypeKindTyConKey, unliftedTypeKindTyConKey + , liftedDataConKey, unliftedDataConKey , tYPETyConKey , runtimeRepTyConKey, boxedRepDataConKey ] |