> So since we have to break the API anyway, why not break it in the way > that we want? Oh, but the thing is we don't! We have a plan to rename GHC.Prim to GHC.Prim.BuiltIn, rename GHC.PrimWrappers (in ghc-prim) to GHC.Prim and make it re-export GHC.Prim.BuiltIn [1]. This way change will be completely backwards compatible. I was working on that on Friday. Patches are essentially finished, but I still have to solve haddock panic that I somehow introduced [2].
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