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The Haskell 98 language as defined by the Haskell 98 report. http://haskell.org/onlinereport/

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GHC § 7.6.3.4

Allow overlapping class instances, provided there is a unique most specific instance for each use.

GHC § 7.6.3.3

Ignore structural rules guaranteeing the termination of class instance resolution. Termination is guaranteed by a fixed-depth recursion stack, and compilation may fail if this depth is exceeded.

GHC § 7.6.3.4

Implies OverlappingInstances. Allow the implementation to choose an instance even when it is possible that further instantiation of types will lead to a more specific instance being applicable.

GHC § 7.3.8

Allows recursive bindings in do blocks, using the rec keyword.

GHC § 7.3.8.2

Deprecated in GHC. Allows recursive bindings using mdo, a variant of do. DoRec provides a different, preferred syntax.

GHC § 7.3.9

Provide syntax for writing list comprehensions which iterate over several lists together, like the zipWith family of functions.

GHC § 7.6.1.1

Allow multiple parameters in a type class.

GHC § 7.17

Disable the dreaded monomorphism restriction.

GHC § 7.6.2

Allow a specification attached to a multi-parameter type class which indicates that some parameters are entirely determined by others. The implementation will check that this property holds for the declared instances, and will use this property to reduce ambiguity in instance resolution.

GHC § 7.8.5

Like RankNTypes but does not allow a higher-rank type to itself appear on the left of a function arrow.

GHC § 7.8.5

Allow a universally-quantified type to occur on the left of a function arrow.

GHC § 7.8.5

Allow data constructors to have polymorphic arguments. Unlike RankNTypes, does not allow this for ordinary functions.

GHC § 7.4.4

Allow existentially-quantified data constructors.

GHC § 7.8.7

Cause a type variable in a signature, which has an explicit forall quantifier, to scope over the definition of the accompanying value declaration.

Deprecated, use ScopedTypeVariables instead.

GHC § 7.8.3

Enable implicit function parameters with dynamic scope.

GHC § 7.8.2

Relax some restrictions on the form of the context of a type signature.

GHC § 7.6.3.2

Relax some restrictions on the form of the context of an instance declaration.

GHC § 7.4.1

Allow data type declarations with no constructors.

GHC § 4.10.3

Run the C preprocessor on Haskell source code.

GHC § 7.8.4

Allow an explicit kind signature giving the kind of types over which a type variable ranges.

GHC § 7.11

Enable a form of pattern which forces evaluation before an attempted match, and a form of strict let/where binding.

GHC § 7.6.3.1

Allow type synonyms in instance heads.

GHC § 7.9

Enable Template Haskell, a system for compile-time metaprogramming.

GHC § 8

Enable the Foreign Function Interface. In GHC, implements the standard Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface Addendum, plus some GHC-specific extensions.

GHC § 7.10

Enable arrow notation.

GHC § 7.16

Enable generic type classes, with default instances defined in terms of the algebraic structure of a type.

GHC § 7.3.11

Disable the implicit importing of the module Prelude. When desugaring certain built-in syntax into ordinary identifiers, use whatever is in scope rather than the Prelude version.

GHC § 7.3.15

Enable syntax for implicitly binding local names corresponding to the field names of a record. Puns bind specific names, unlike RecordWildCards.

GHC § 7.3.5

Enable a form of guard which matches a pattern and binds variables.

GHC § 7.5.4

Allow a type declared with newtype to use deriving for any class with an instance for the underlying type.

Hugs § 7.1

Enable the "Trex" extensible records system.

Hugs § 7.2

Enable type synonyms which are transparent in some definitions and opaque elsewhere, as a way of implementing abstract datatypes.

Hugs § 7.3

Enable an alternate syntax for string literals, with string templating.

GHC § 7.3.2

Allow the character # as a postfix modifier on identifiers. Also enables literal syntax for unboxed values.

GHC § 7.7

Allow data types and type synonyms which are indexed by types, i.e. ad-hoc polymorphism for types.

GHC § 7.5.2

Allow a standalone declaration which invokes the type class deriving mechanism.

GHC § 7.3.1

Allow certain Unicode characters to stand for certain ASCII character sequences, e.g. keywords and punctuation.

GHC § 8.1.1

Allow the use of unboxed types as foreign types, e.g. in foreign import and foreign export.

GHC § 7.4.3

Defer validity checking of types until after expanding type synonyms, relaxing the constraints on how synonyms may be used.

GHC § 7.4.2

Allow the name of a type constructor, type class, or type variable to be an infix operator.

GHC § 7.3.16

Enable syntax for implicitly binding local names corresponding to the field names of a record. A wildcard binds all unmentioned names, unlike NamedFieldPuns.

Deprecated, use NamedFieldPuns instead.

GHC § 7.3.14

Allow a record field name to be disambiguated by the type of the record it's in.

GHC § 7.6.4

Enable overloading of string literals using a type class, much like integer literals.

GHC § 7.4.6

Enable generalized algebraic data types, in which type variables may be instantiated on a per-constructor basis. Enables "GADT syntax" which can be used to declare GADTs as well as ordinary algebraic types.

GHC § 7.17.2

Allow pattern bindings to be polymorphic.

GHC § 7.8.8

Relax the requirements on mutually-recursive polymorphic functions.

GHC § 2.4.5

Allow default instantiation of polymorphic types in more situations.

GHC § 7.2.2

Enable unboxed tuples.

GHC § 7.5.3

Enable deriving for classes Data.Typeable.Typeable and Data.Generics.Data.

GHC § 7.6.1.3

Allow a class method's type to place additional constraints on a class type variable.

GHC § 7.3.18

Allow imports to be qualified by the package name the module is intended to be imported from, e.g.

 import "network" Network.Socket

GHC § 7.8.6

Deprecated in GHC 6.12 and will be removed in GHC 7. Allow a type variable to be instantiated at a polymorphic type.

GHC § 7.3.3

Change the syntax for qualified infix operators.

GHC § 7.3.12

Relax the interpretation of left operator sections to allow unary postfix operators.

GHC § 7.9.5

Enable quasi-quotation, a mechanism for defining new concrete syntax for expressions and patterns.

GHC § 7.3.10

Enable generalized list comprehensions, supporting operations such as sorting and grouping.

GHC § 7.3.6

Enable view patterns, which match a value by applying a function and matching on the result.

Allow concrete XML syntax to be used in expressions and patterns, as per the Haskell Server Pages extension language: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HSP. The ideas behind it are discussed in the paper "Haskell Server Pages through Dynamic Loading" by Niklas Broberg, from Haskell Workshop '05.

Allow regular pattern matching over lists, as discussed in the paper "Regular Expression Patterns" by Niklas Broberg, Andreas Farre and Josef Svenningsson, from ICFP '04.

Enables the use of tuple sections, e.g. (, True) desugars into x -> (x, True).

Allows GHC primops, written in C--, to be imported into a Haskell file.

Support for patterns of the form n + k, where k is an integer literal.

Improve the layout rule when if expressions are used in a do block.

Makes much of the Haskell sugar be desugared into calls to the function with a particular name that is in scope.

Make forall a keyword in types, which can be used to give the generalisation explicitly.

Allow contexts to be put on datatypes, e.g. the Eq a in data Eq a => Set a = NilSet | ConsSet a (Set a).

Local (let and where) bindings are monomorphic.

Enable deriving for the Data.Functor.Functor class.

Enable deriving for the Data.Traversable.Traversable class.

Enable deriving for the Data.Foldable.Foldable class.

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