On 13 Nov 2013 18:53, "Joachim Breitner" <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 12.11.2013, 09:26 +0100 schrieb Bas van Dijk: > > On 10 November 2013 22:40, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Including aeson, which I think we'd all very much like to do, requires > > > dlist-0.5. > > > Now, dlist has been around for a very long time, and is very stable. > > > I do not believe that dlist's API is exposed indirectly via aeson at all. > > > > > > I hereby propose that it be added to the platform. > > > At the very least, it could be like primitive - in the platform, but not > > > "part" of it. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > +1 > > > > However, note that I don't mind dropping the dlist dependency from > > aeson. I use it in a very limited internal place: > > > > https://github.com/bos/aeson/blob/master/Data/Aeson/Types/Generic.hs#L213 > > while dlist is certainly a nice and stable library, it is still > relatively specialized, and I would personally not consider it important > enough to be included in the platform. I’d like the platform to stay a > selection of packages that people not only can use, but really should > know about, and use them instead of rolling their own. I’m not sure if > this holds for dlist – using [a] -> [a] and (.) directly is also good > practice.
Hi Joachim, I would call using [a] -> [a] and (.): "rolling your own" and I consider it bad practise. Code would be easier to understand if it used common names. > My suggestion is to remove it from aeson, and keep the platform small > and focused. I think its best if I remove dlist from aeson and that we discuss its inclusion into the HP (after next) in a separate proposal. Sean: care to lead the proposal? Bas
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