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The difference is that is uses a modern pretty printer and parser system and the format is not expected to be Haskell concrete syntax but rather the external human readable representation used by Cabal. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Documentation</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><SPAN CLASS="keyword" >class</SPAN > <A NAME="t:Text" ><A NAME="t%3AText" ></A ></A ><B >Text</B > a <SPAN CLASS="keyword" >where</SPAN ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section4" >Methods</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:disp" ><A NAME="v%3Adisp" ></A ></A ><B >disp</B > :: a -> <A HREF="../pretty/Text-PrettyPrint-HughesPJ.html#t%3ADoc" >Doc</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:parse" ><A NAME="v%3Aparse" ></A ></A ><B >parse</B > :: <A HREF="Distribution-Compat-ReadP.html#t%3AReadP" >ReadP</A > r a</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section4" ><IMG SRC="minus.gif" CLASS="coll" ONCLICK="toggle(this,'i:Text')" ALT="show/hide" > Instances</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><DIV ID="i:Text" STYLE="display:block;" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="../base/Data-Version.html#t%3AVersion" >Version</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > VersionWildcard</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Version.html#t%3AVersionRange" >VersionRange</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Language-Haskell-Extension.html#t%3AExtension" >Extension</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-System.html#t%3APlatform" >Platform</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-System.html#t%3AArch" >Arch</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-System.html#t%3AOS" >OS</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Package.html#t%3ADependency" >Dependency</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Package.html#t%3APackageIdentifier" >PackageIdentifier</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Package.html#t%3APackageName" >PackageName</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-ModuleName.html#t%3AModuleName" >ModuleName</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-License.html#t%3ALicense" >License</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Compiler.html#t%3ACompilerId" >CompilerId</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-Compiler.html#t%3ACompilerFlavor" >CompilerFlavor</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A HREF="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t%3ARepoType" >RepoType</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Distribution-Text.html#t%3AText" >Text</A > <A 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