Suggestions like this are a great help for improving the user manual. Thank you. I will fix. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell- | users-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Yitzchak Gale | Sent: 12 August 2008 16:48 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: GHC Users Mailing List; Ashley Yakeley | Subject: Re: Orphan Instances | | <Moving this side point to the ghc users list...> | | Ashley Yakely wrote: | >> What is an orphan instance, and why do we care about them? | | Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | > They are documented in the GHC manual | > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/separate- | compilation.html#orphan-modules | | Thanks for the nice explanation there. Since you brought it | up, though, the explanation might be made even clearer with | two small changes: | | 1. The term "instance head" is used throughout the explanation, | beginning already with the second paragraph ("the head of the | instance..."). However, that term is only defined near the very end | '(the part after the "=>")'. For those who do not already know the | surprise ending, this makes the explanation read rather like a | mystery story. | | 2. I believe that the text "by setting a = Int" was meant to be | "by setting a = T". | | Thanks, | Yitz | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users