On 30-May-2000, George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > (If nothing at all can be guaranteed, then no-one should be using those
> > features, and they should be removed from the Hugs/ghc extension libraries.
> > But it should be possible to make some guarantees.)
> What on earth is a guarantee? GHC is a research project. I don't expect to
> be able to sue Microsoft or the University of Glasgow [...]
I was not talking about a legal guarantee.
Just some documentation that explains the intended specification.
Providing library procedures without providing a specification
for them is fundamentally bad practice.
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