Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of Commentary/Compiler/RdrNameType

Timestamp:

10/05/06 04:02:14 (7 years ago)

Author:

simonpj

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Commentary/Compiler/RdrNameType

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 An {{{OccName}}} is more-or-less just a string, like "foo" or "Tree", giving the (unqualified) name of an entity. 
-Well, not quite just a string, because in Haskell a name like "C" could mean a type constructor or data constructor, depending on context. So GHC defines a type `OccName` (defined in [[GhcFile(basicTypes/OccName)]]) that is a pair of a {{{FastString}}} and a {{{NameSpace}}} indicating which name space the name is drawn from. The data type is defined (abstractly) in [[GhcFile(compiler/basicTypes/OccName.lhs)]]:
+Well, not quite just a string, because in Haskell a name like "C" could mean a type constructor or data constructor, depending on context. So GHC defines a type `OccName` that is a pair of a {{{FastString}}} and a {{{NameSpace}}} indicating which name space the name is drawn from. The data type is defined (abstractly) in [[GhcFile(compiler/basicTypes/OccName.lhs)]]:
 {{{
 data OccName = OccName