> it might be wise to see what GHC decides to do on that front, first,

I'd argue that it's not. Haskell hasn't had a release in years, and I think
it's time to put a little pressure on the community.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ian Lynagh <ig...@earth.li> wrote:
> > [...] adding DeriveDataTypeable
> > hopefully wouldn't be too controversial [...]
>
> This is a little tricky since the Data class itself makes (essential,
> I think) use of Rank2Types. Typeable ought to be fine, but it might be
> wise to see what GHC decides to do on that front, first, e.g. whether
> it's going to autoderive all instances or forbid user instances or
> anything else similarly bold.
>
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