I guess that's a valid argument. I'll discuss this with Simon tomorrow. Janek
Dnia poniedziałek, 26 sierpnia 2013, Simon Marlow napisał: > On 26/08/13 10:38, Jan Stolarek wrote: > >> 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]. > > I'm sorry, but I just don't like this solution. We could do this every > time we change an API, but imagine what a mess we'd be in by now! It's > just not the right way to manage API changes. > > Cheers, > Simon _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
