Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2013, 11:34 +0200 schrieb Roman Cheplyaka:
It would be great to have a portable base, without any GHC-specific stuff in it. After all, modules like Control.Monad or Data.Foldable are pure Haskell2010.
while you are considering to split base, please also consider separating IO out. We can expect compiling Haskell to, say JavaScript or other targets that are not processes in the usual sense. For these IO might not make sense. Having something below base that provides the pure stuff (common data structures etc.) would enable libraries to easily say: „My algorithm can be used in normal programs as well as in programs that are compiled to JS“ by not depending on base, but on, say, pure-base. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata