Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Commentary/Compiler/WiredIn

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09/12/06 09:10:26 (7 years ago)
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    33= Wired-in and known-key things = 
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    4343== Initialisation == 
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    45 When reading an interface file, GHC might come across "GHC.Base.Eq", which is the name of the `Eq` class.  How does it match up this occurrence in the interface file with `eqClassName` defined in `PrelNames`?  Because the global name cache maintained by the renamer is initialised with all the known-key names.  This is done by the (hard-to-find) function `HscMain.newHscEnv`: 
     45When reading an interface file, GHC might come across "GHC.Base.Eq", which is the name of the `Eq` class.  How does it match up this occurrence in the interface file with `eqClassName` defined in `PrelNames`?  Because the global name cache maintained by the renamer is initialise with all the known-key names.  This is done by the (hard-to-find) function `HscMain.newHscEnv`: 
    4646{{{ 
    4747newHscEnv :: DynFlags -> IO HscEnv