[m-dev.] for review: fix doc for class constraint ordering

[David Glen JEFFERY]

On 03-Oct-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> For review by dgj and/or zs.
> 
> ----------
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 1
> 
> doc/reference_manual.texi:
> 	Change the documentation of existential types to say that
> 	existential constraints must precede universal constraints
> 	rather than vice versa.
> 
> 	This change makes the documentation consistent with the
> 	behaviour of the compiler.
> 
> 	The rationale for changing the documentation rather than
> 	changing the compiler is that the order that the compiler
> 	uses more closely matches the logic of the type declaration.

Fine.


dgj
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