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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/exts/type_literals.rst b/docs/users_guide/exts/type_literals.rst index 320c00baa2..cbf4d89023 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/exts/type_literals.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/exts/type_literals.rst @@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Numeric literals are of kind ``Nat``, while string literals are of kind extension. The kinds of the literals and all other low-level operations for this -feature are defined in module ``GHC.TypeLits``. Note that the module -defines some type-level operators that clash with their value-level -counterparts (e.g. ``(+)``). Import and export declarations referring to -these operators require an explicit namespace annotation (see +feature are defined in modules ``GHC.TypeLits`` and ``GHC.TypeNats``. +Note that these modules define some type-level operators that clash with their +value-level counterparts (e.g. ``(+)``). Import and export declarations +referring to these operators require an explicit namespace annotation (see :ref:`explicit-namespaces`). Here is an example of using type-level numeric literals to provide a @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ a type-level literal. This is done with the functions ``natVal`` and These functions are overloaded because they need to return a different result, depending on the type at which they are instantiated. :: - natVal :: KnownNat n => proxy n -> Integer + natVal :: KnownNat n => proxy n -> Natural -- from GHC.TypeNats + natVal :: KnownNat n => proxy n -> Integer -- from GHC.TypeLits -- instance KnownNat 0 -- instance KnownNat 1 @@ -79,7 +80,9 @@ will be unknown at compile-time, so it is hidden in an existential type. The conversion may be performed using ``someNatVal`` for integers and ``someSymbolVal`` for strings: :: - someNatVal :: Integer -> Maybe SomeNat + someNatVal :: Natural -> Maybe SomeNat -- from GHC.TypeNats + someNatVal :: Integer -> Maybe SomeNat -- from GHC.TypeLits + SomeNat :: KnownNat n => Proxy n -> SomeNat The operations on strings are similar. |