On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:36 +0200, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > Haskell is beautiful, but it does have its warts. A Haskell 2.0 could > incorporate some non-backwards-compatible changes which would make > things a bit nicer. > There are tons of useful extensions in GHC which should be included. > >From my perspective, someone who rarely uses the more exotic > extensions, the two main warts is the module system (I would like to > be able to "re-export modules qualified", so the user could import > MyGraphicsLib and then have access to, say, Button.new and > Window.close which would normally reside under MyGraphicsLib.Button > and MyGraphicsLib.Window)
This has been discussed on the libraries list once or twice with a rough consensus but without any further detailed analysis to make sure it really works. It doesn't look as though it's a backwards incompatible change however which is nice. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
