Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] deriving

2008-04-08 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Hans, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:17:38 PM, you wrote: deriving which I think is not used elsewhere. It will break a lot of code, but it is easy to change, and also easy to make a compatibility mode. it's also easy to replace all the books, update all code repositories and reteach all

Re: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] deriving

2008-04-08 Thread Hans Aberg
On 8 Apr 2008, at 10:47, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: deriving which I think is not used elsewhere. It will break a lot of code, but it is easy to change, and also easy to make a compatibility mode. it's also easy to replace all the books, update all code repositories and reteach all the programmers

Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] deriving

2008-04-08 Thread PR Stanley
Hello Hans, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:17:38 PM, you wrote: deriving which I think is not used elsewhere. It will break a lot of code, but it is easy to change, and also easy to make a compatibility mode. it's also easy to replace all the books, update all code repositories and reteach

Re: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] deriving

2008-04-08 Thread Hans Aberg
On 8 Apr 2008, at 15:26, PR Stanley wrote: I'm sure you could introduce change gradually without too much pain. So then you only have to get the compilers to gradually understand it :-). I personally think deriving is a descriptive term, now that I understand its role better. There are