On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 17:08:29 +0200, Florent Becker wrote:
> as a newbie darcs hacker, i have a ton of naïve questions. If you don't
> mind me asking them, i'll try to compile your answers into darcs-doc
> strings in the code for the next generation of darcs hackers.

Yes please!

> The first one is: what problem does the 'PatchInfoAnd' type solve? Why
> don't we call 'Darcs.Patch.Core.patch2patchinfo' everywhere, and what is
> the Hopefully for?

For the 'Hopefully' question, this mail may provide some clues:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.devel/5113/focus=5116

Basically it does the same job of Either String, but we want to
distinguish the Hopefully type for self-documentation.

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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