On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:29 AM, gs <volderm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Brandon Allbery <allbery.b <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > ... 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. > > "Remembering" data type contexts shouldn't break existing code, unless it's > semantically broken already. (I'm sure that anyone could come up with a > theoretical example of code which would break
These statements are contradictory. > - but would it break any > real-world code?) I do not support that criterion. We use theory to ENSURE that no real-world code will break.
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