6 Jun
2016
6 Jun
'16
9:13 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Dominick Samperi
Consequently, it refuses to install with the latest ghc provided with the Haskell Platform (8.0.1).
base is not defined by the Platform, it is defined by (and ships with, and must completely match) ghc. And no, backward compatibility is not guaranteed; for a recent example, ghc 7.10 broke many programs by making Applicative a "superclass" of Monad and by generalizing many Prelude functions to Foldable and/or Traversable. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net