On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:
Could you elaborate or point me to where this philosophy is articulated in commentary in base or in the language standards ?

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch11.html#x18-18600011.4 is instructive, insofar as one can assume the restrictions it quotes that do not agree with the semantics of Haskell imply a philosophy.

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