Would it be OK if they added the OVERLAPPING pragma first and then I change my library to use OVERLAPPABLE?
I think so, yes. Does that not work? Is it bad? Do you think the semantics is wrong? Simon From: Johan Tibell [mailto:johan.tib...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 August 2015 13:19 To: Simon Peyton Jones Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPS pragmas are confusing The proposed change to my library is here: https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/pull/95/files We remove the OverlappingInstances pragma and instead add an OVERLAPPABLE pragma like so: instance {-# OVERLAPPABLE #-} FromField a => FromField (Maybe a) where This causes clients of the library that previously compiled (e.g. the music-parts package) to no longer compile, due to a now lacking OVERLAPPING pragma in their code. The issue here is I'm trying to the right thing (move to new pragmas), but that causes clients to fail to compile. My question is: how do we avoid that? Would it be OK if they added the OVERLAPPING pragma first and then I change my library to use OVERLAPPABLE? On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com<mailto:simo...@microsoft.com>> wrote: What's the right way to migrate code? Just switching my library to the new pragmas breaks code, so that doesn't seem very attractive. I don’t understand. Can you describe the problem more precisely, perhaps with an example? S From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org<mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org>] On Behalf Of Johan Tibell Sent: 25 August 2015 10:42 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org<mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org> Subject: OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPS pragmas are confusing It was brought to my attention that cassava, my library, uses OverlappingInstances, which is now deprecated. There's a suggested fix here: https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/pull/95. The fix seems correct but, as Mikhail points out, makes some client code no longer compile (due to a now missing OVERLAPPABLE pragma). What's the right way to migrate code? Just switching my library to the new pragmas breaks code, so that doesn't seem very attractive. Do clients have to migrate before the libraries they use? -- Johan
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