[commit: ghc] master: document special "this" syntax for PackageImports (#7409) (b0339aa)
Simon Marlow <[email protected]>
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Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc On branch : master http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/b0339aa1e298c700c849813fbd16b29c92e27055 >--------------------------------------------------------------- commit b0339aa1e298c700c849813fbd16b29c92e27055 Author: Simon Marlow <[email protected]> Date: Tue Dec 11 09:20:24 2012 +0000 document special "this" syntax for PackageImports (#7409) >--------------------------------------------------------------- docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml index 6d549b8..825ef65 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml @@ -1999,6 +1999,9 @@ import "network" Network.Socket available from multiple packages, or is present in both the current package being built and an external package.</para> + <para>The special package name <literal>this</literal> can be used to + refer to the current package being built.</para> + <para>Note: you probably don't need to use this feature, it was added mainly so that we can build backwards-compatible versions of packages when APIs change. It can lead to fragile dependencies in