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authorPierre-Marie Pédrot2018-06-12 17:02:34 +0200
committerPierre-Marie Pédrot2020-02-28 10:27:59 +0100
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Deprecating the declaration of arbitrary terms as hints.
We restrict hints to be global references, so as to further simplify the implementation. Allowing arbitrary terms makes it difficult or expensive to handle properly some actions like universe contexts or hint equality. Ultimately, the IsConstr constructor for hints should also be removed.
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+- **Deprecated:**
+ Deprecated the declaration of arbitrary terms as hints. Global
+ references are now mandatory.
+ (`#7791 <https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/7791>`_,
+ by Pierre-Marie Pédrot).