Re: Changes to Typeable

2012-02-14 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 13/02/2012, at 11:10, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Should there perhaps be a NewTypeable module which could then be renamed | into Typeable once it is sufficiently well established? I started with that idea, but there would be a 2-stage process: * Step 1: (when PolyTypable becomes

Re: Changes to Typeable

2012-02-14 Thread Edward Kmett
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:00 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: On 13/02/2012, at 11:10, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Should there perhaps be a NewTypeable module which could then be renamed | into Typeable once it is sufficiently well established? I

Re: Changes to Typeable

2012-02-14 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: There are fewer combinators from commonly used classes for working with the left argument of a bifunctor, however. I think that the bifunctor part of Bas's version is a bit of a red herring. What I like about it is

Re: Changes to Typeable

2012-02-14 Thread Edward Kmett
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: There are fewer combinators from commonly used classes for working with the left argument of a bifunctor, however. I think that the

Re: Changes to Typeable

2012-02-14 Thread John Meacham
Proxy also has the advantage that it almost exactly mirrors what it ends up looking like in core. The application to proxy is the user visible type application. John On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-14 Thread Austin Seipp
Evan, I've finished making a binary distribution and a .pkg installer for OS X (partly delayed due to terrible internet at the moment.) The binary distribution and GHC package, as well as md5 sums, can be found here: http://code.haskell.org/~thoughtpolice/ghc-741-osx-sl/ If anybody else would