#10886: Remove the magic from `Any` -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: goldfire Type: task | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D2049 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by bgamari):
Rename `GHC.Prim` to something else, and make `GHC.Prim` a backward compatible module that exports `GHC.Exts` (including `Any` and `Constraints` for example).
As Richard mentioned, this is actually backwards. Currently users are advised to use `GHC.Exts`, which should re-export anything of use provided by `GHC.Prim`. Unfortunately, it seems that this message perhaps isn't as widely known as it should be. I'm not sure how else to convey it, however.
I thus assumed that `GHC.Prim` was entirely an internal implementation artifact
Indeed it is. In fact, it is quite a magical module (e.g. it has no object code; the source Haskell module generated by `mkPrimOps` is actually merely for consumption by Haddock), so renaming it as thomie suggests would require a fair number of changes in the compiler. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10886#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler