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authorJustin Raymond <justin.raymond.14@gmail.com>2015-11-16 17:05:36 +0100
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2015-11-16 21:59:47 +0100
commite2d9821bf611da389df7ab8826b957d37351c29d (patch)
tree5343ded9a390231447368e830721dc01a703853c
parent741cf18a5e4ee5d0aa8afcab813441e7bcd4050c (diff)
downloadhaskell-e2d9821bf611da389df7ab8826b957d37351c29d.tar.gz
Data.List.isSubsequenceOf documentation clarification
Fixes #11083. Reviewers: austin, hvr, bgamari Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1477 GHC Trac Issues: #11083
-rw-r--r--libraries/base/Data/List.hs5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/Data/List.hs b/libraries/base/Data/List.hs
index ab85cf4c72..693c0dd151 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Data/List.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Data/List.hs
@@ -219,8 +219,9 @@ import Data.OldList hiding ( all, and, any, concat, concatMap, elem, find,
import GHC.Base ( Bool(..), Eq((==)), otherwise )
--- | The 'isSubsequenceOf' function takes two lists and returns 'True' if the
--- first list is a subsequence of the second list.
+-- | The 'isSubsequenceOf' function takes two lists and returns 'True' if all
+-- the elements of the first list occur, in order, in the second. The
+-- elements do not have to occur consecutively.
--
-- @'isSubsequenceOf' x y@ is equivalent to @'elem' x ('subsequences' y)@.
--