On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
So. On the "pro" side, vector is already widely used and liked. On the "con" side, there's the Safe Haskell question. Simon is quite reasonably in favour of SH, and also very reasonably not treating this question as a blocker. I'll admit to not having found a compelling reason to care about SH yet, and I would similarly be sad to see a good library get hung up on a compiler feature that is not yet widely accepted.
I expect that API changes to vector become more difficult once 'vector' is in the platform. Thus I would prefer to use the opportunity of platform addition for bigger API changes, otherwise this might be delayed for years. And I don't think that we are talking about a not-well-adopted new GHC feature but about good style in general, namely the clear distinction safe and unsafe functions (that now happens to become formalized by a new GHC feature).
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