This a doc bug on the GHC (and Haskell report) side -
Hugs98's List.minimumBy type is the right one (and also
the type of the *defn* in the Lib Report.)
--sigbjorn
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> Subject: Type of minimumBy
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> According to the Haskell 98 report, and GHC, List.minimumBy has type
> (a->a->Ordering) -> [a] -> a. But according to Hugs98,
> September 1999,
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> sphere:Novel$ hugs
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> Haskell 98 mode: Restart with command line option -98 to enable
> extensions
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> Reading file "/usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs":
>
> Hugs session for:
> /usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs
> Type:? for help
> Prelude>:a List
> Reading file "/usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/List.hs":
> Reading file "/usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/Maybe.hs":
> Reading file "/usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/List.hs":
>
> Hugs session for:
> /usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs
> /usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/Maybe.hs
> /usr/groups/haskell/lib/hugs/lib/List.hs
> List>:t minimumBy
> minimumBy:: (a -> a -> a) -> [a] -> a
> List>
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