Title: Re: The future of the haskell2010/haskell98 packages - AKA Trac #9590
Hello Brandon,
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 1:02:54 AM, you wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com> wrote:
How about doing the honest thing, and withdrawing both packa
Hi Malcolm,
Withdrawing the packages from GHC's distribution is certainly a
possibility. We did briefly raise that point when we talked yesterday
too, but it wasn't discussed much.
Perhaps some others feel the same, but I imagine more people would be
OK with #2 above as opposed to eliminating it,
Hi Ryan,
Yes, that or one of the various superclass instance proposals would
probably solve this without too much grief, since we could simply
export Applicative, then automatically get an instance for it
afterwords at no cost.
This was very very briefly discussed yesterday, but I left it out of
Would something like John Meacham's class alias proposal (
http://repetae.net/recent/out/classalias.html) help alleviate this problem?
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Brandon Allbery
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Malcolm Wallace
> wrote:
>
>> How about doing the honest thing, and w
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Malcolm Wallace
wrote:
> How about doing the honest thing, and withdrawing both packages in
> ghc-7.10? Haskell'98 is now 15 years old, and the 2010 standard was never
> really popular anyway.
There are apparently educators using both, although they're not used
How about doing the honest thing, and withdrawing both packages in ghc-7.10?
Haskell'98 is now 15 years old, and the 2010 standard was never really popular
anyway.
Regards,
Malcolm
On 30 Sep 2014, at 21:21, Austin Seipp wrote:
Hello developers, users, friends,
I'd like you all to weigh
I hate #1. Let's avoid if unless it's really crucial to some of our users.
Simon
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