On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:59 AM, harry <volderm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Doel <dan.doel <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > However, another thing to consider is that getting rid of data type > contexts was accepted into the language standard. > > ... which means that implementers should be free to "fix" data type > contexts > however they like, as they are now complier extensions which won't conflict > with standard Haskell. Except that people do build older programs with newer Haskell compilers, and it's bad to "repurpose" a syntax like that because it leads to strange errors. -- 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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