On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 02:22:23PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:22:23 +1000
> From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: TH changes for ghc 8.0
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on updating persistent-template for ghc-8.0 and reading the
> migration guide:
>
>     
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0#template-haskell-2.11.0.0
>
> specifically the bit that says:
>
> > * the DataD, NewtypeD, DataInstD, and NewtypeInstD constructors have a new
> >   field `Maybe Kind` (#10828), and take a `CxtQ` instead of a `[Name]` for
> >   the derived classes (#10819). If you don't know what to do, use `Nothing`
> >   for the kind signature, and `cxt []` for the derived classes.
>
> Using `Nothing` as suggested is working out well enough, but I'm a bit 
> befuddled
> by the change from `[Name]` to `CtxQ` and the usage of `ctx []`. I can't seem 
> to
> find *any* function named `ctx`.

the docs say `cxt`, not `ctx`.

not sure what that means either.  (-:

cheers,
m.
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