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This document describes GHC's prelude and libraries. The basic story is that of
the Haskell 1.4 Report and Libraries document (which we do not reproduce here),
but this document describes in addition:
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GHC's additional non-standard libraries and types, such as
state transformers, packed strings, foreign objects, stable
pointers, and so on.
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GHC's primitive types and operations. The standard Haskell
functions are implemented on top of these, and it is sometimes
useful to use them directly.
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The organisation of these libraries into directories.
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Short description of programmer interface to the non-standard,
`built-in' libraries provided in addition to the standard
prelude and libraries.
In addition to the GHC prelude libraries, GHC comes with a number of
system libraries, which are presented in Section See section System libraries.
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