To follow up a comment that Simon made recently: The best
way to ensure that your program "survives" new versions of
GHC is to (try to) give Simon et al. a copy for their test
suites. This is a win-win deal. The GHC folks really
benefit from Interesting Programs to work with. You get (a
little) Free Expert Attention to your Haskell program.
It's not an option for people with Really Secret Code, but
it is for everyone else. If you don't want your code
winding up in a public test suite (but why not?), then just
tell the GHC folks "not for distribution" or something.
Don't make the classic error of "I'll just tidy up my code
first". The GHC people need to see code As It Really Is.
Will
