Don't explain Coercible as a class with compiler-generated instances#3999
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The documentation we have for Coercible seems to be based on the draft of the Safe Zero-cost Coercions for Haskell paper but its latest revision moves away from compiler-generated instances. This is explained in the section 7.2 Prior version of Coercible of the paper.
This pull request also adds links to the
safe-coercepackage on Pursuit and to the documentation about roles I’m proposing to add to the language reference in purescript/documentation#371.Rendered documentation