On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My understanding of the argument here, which seems to make sense to me, >> is that the AMP already introduced a significant breaking change with >> regards to monads. Books and lecture notes have already not caught up to >> this, by and large. Hence, by introducing a further change, which >> _completes_ the general AMP project, then by the time books and lecture >> notes are all updated, they will be able to tell a much nicer story than >> the current one? > > > This is a multi-year, "boil the ocean"-style project, affecting literally > every Haskell user, and the end result after all of this labor is going to > be... a slightly spiffier bike shed? > > Strongly -1 from me also. My experience over the last couple of years is > that every GHC release breaks my libraries in annoying ways that require > CPP to fix: > > ~/personal/src/snap λ find . -name '*.hs' | xargs egrep > '#if.*(MIN_VERSION)|(GLASGOW_HASKELL)' | wc -l > 64 > > > As a user this is another bikeshedding change that is not going to benefit > me at all. Maintaining a Haskell library can be an exasperating exercise of > running on a treadmill to keep up with busywork caused by changes to the > core language and libraries. My feeling is starting to become that the > libraries committee is doing as much (if not more) to *cause* problems > and work for me than it is doing to improve the common infrastructure. > On the libraries I maintain and have a copy of on my computer right now: 329
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