Hi, > After reading the Safe Haskell paper today, I got the impression that > no one actually wants the .Safe modules currently in vector. If vector > was to be made Safe Haskell friendly, we should instead add .Unsafe > modules (and have the rest of the modules declared Trustworthy). > Having .Unsafe modules is better than having .Safe modules, because > > * there are many more safe functions than unsafe functions, and > * Haskell is by default safe, so having modules called .Safe is a bit > like having modules called .Pure. There's precedence for having > .Unsafe modules in e.g. bytestring. > > If that's the case, and if Roman agrees, I suggest we release a new > major version that > > * removes all the .Safe modules [1], > * adds new .Unsafe modules, and > * marks the functions that are now exported through the .Unsafe > modules deprecated in their original (non-.Unsafe) location.
+1 from me. Milan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
