Re: RE: Felleisen on Standard Haskell

1998-08-04 Thread Lennart Augustsson
That said, the more I think about it, I don't really believe that "Standard Haskell" will accomplish much. The fact is that everyone wants many of the features in Haskell 2, and so even today would prefer using an implementation that is probably not fully compliant with anything that is

Re: RE: Felleisen on Standard Haskell

1998-08-04 Thread Hans Aberg
At 10:12 +0200 98/08/04, Lennart Augustsson wrote: It's not only people who use Haskell for teaching that want stability. If you've used Haskell for some real project where the current Haskell is adequate ... I think Standard Haskell is a good thing since it opens up the possibility of making

Re: RE: Felleisen on Standard Haskell

1998-08-04 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Lennart wrote: It's not only people who use Haskell for teaching that want stability. If you've used Haskell for some real project where the current Haskell is adequate (which, IMHO, is quite a few) you may not want to rewrite gazillion lines of code. I'd like to second that. I have two