#2518: hard-to-find .hs-boot docs
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Reporter: Isaac Dupree | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Documentation | Version: 6.8.3
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown | Os: Unknown
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Comment (by Isaac Dupree):
Well, I don't think that .hs-boot files are information that "imported
modules contain", because it's in a separate file, which is a nuisance to
me in practice. And there's no inherent reason that `ghc --make` has to
use separate compilation, so it's not completely obvious that that
paragraph -as written- should apply. But I don't think the details matter
so much as that the documentation should point out in that location what's
going on, because users regularly get confused about it. If it really
doesn't even count as an infelicity, then it should go in the "undefined
behavior in Haskell 98" section of that page,
<http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/bugs-and-
infelicities.html#haskell98-undefined>, a section that unfortunately is
harder to read due to the lack of sub-headings in the table of contents.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2518#comment:2>
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