id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
4929,Support all top-level declarations in GHCi,simonmar,simonmar,"I thought we had a ticket for this, but I can't find it so I'm creating one.

In GHCi there's no reason in principle that we can't allow any declaration that you can write at the top-level of a source file, at the interactive prompt.  Many people have asked for this over the years.

 * data/type/newtype declarations
 * class declarations
 * instance declarations
 * foreign declarations (exception foreign export)
 * deriving
 * default???
",task,closed,high,7.4.1,GHCi,7.0.1,fixed,,,Unknown/Multiple,Unknown/Multiple,None/Unknown,Difficult (2-5 days),,,,