On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consequently, it refuses to install with the latest ghc provided with > the Haskell Platform (8.0.1). > base is not defined by the Platform, it is defined by (and ships with, and must completely match) ghc. And no, backward compatibility is not guaranteed; for a recent example, ghc 7.10 broke many programs by making Applicative a "superclass" of Monad and by generalizing many Prelude functions to Foldable and/or Traversable. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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