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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2021-04-15 13:26:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2021-04-15 15:31:18 -0400 |
| commit | 533f6b734f1cd2861811e6fec387e2a4bdf4c796 (patch) | |
| tree | 9997ebfad1b53719e5cb4f0540e2e4347d351d0a | |
| parent | efe9c09ef367c2ca81ba7475d786c35415248555 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-533f6b734f1cd2861811e6fec387e2a4bdf4c796.tar.gz | |
users-guide: Clarify GHC2021 documentation
Point out that GHC2021 doesn't offer the same degree of stability that
Haskell2010 does, as noted by @phadej.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/exts/control.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/exts/control.rst b/docs/users_guide/exts/control.rst index a94def72b5..84c2aa1208 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/exts/control.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/exts/control.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Language extensions can be controlled (i.e. allowed or not) in two ways: ``{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}`` (see :ref:`language-pragma`). .. extension:: GHC2021 - :shortdesc: Use GHC’s set of default languages from 2021 + :shortdesc: Use GHC’s set of default language extensions from 2021 GHC blesses a number of extensions, beyond Haskell 2010, to be suitable to turned on by default. These extensions are considered to be stable and @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Language extensions can be controlled (i.e. allowed or not) in two ways: ``GHC20xx`` by default, users are advised to declare the language set explicitly with ``-XGHC2021``. + Note that, because GHC2021 includes a number of non-standardized + extensions, the stability guarantees it provides are not quite as strong as + those provided by, e.g., :extension:`Haskell2010`. While GHC does take + pains to avoid changing the semantics of these extensions, changes may + still happen (e.g. the simplified subsumption change introduced in GHC 9.0 + which caused GHC to reject some programs using :extension:`RankNTypes`). The ``GHC2021`` language set comprises the following extensions: |