I've pushed a patch to the docs. Thanks S
From: glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of José Pedro Magalhães Sent: 28 December 2011 15:08 To: Wolfgang Jeltsch Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1 Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:51, Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org<mailto:g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org>> wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 12:48 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > | By the way, is there a reason behind the fact that "Constraint" uses the > | ordinary case, while "BOX" has all three letters capitalized? Wouldn't > | it be more sensible if it were "Box" instead of "BOX"? > > Only that BOX is a sort (currently the one and only sort), whereas > Constraint is a kind. I'm not sure that BOX should ever be displayed > to users. Okay, this makes sense then. However, note that the GHC User's manual mixes the terminology ("kind" vs. "sort") at one point: Note that List, for instance, does not get kind BOX -> BOX, because we do not further classify kinds; all kinds have sort BOX. <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/kind-polymorphism-and-promotion.html> I think, it should say "sort BOX -> BOX". Yes, it should indeed say "sort", not "kind". If you know of any other places in the documentation with this type/kind/sort of inconsistency, please let me know :-) Cheers, Pedro Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org<mailto:Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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