Hello, I have been using GHC HEAD for some months and am suffering from the breaks of backward compatibility. 1) MANY packages cannot be complied with GHC HEAD because of lack of FlexibleInstances and BangPatterns. 2) The network package on github cannot be compiled because the layout handling of GHC HEAD became more severe. For instance, here is such code from Network/Socket.hsc. allocaBytes (2 * sizeOf (1 :: CInt)) $ \ fdArr -> do _ <- throwSocketErrorIfMinus1Retry "socketpair" $ c_socketpair (packFamily family) (packSocketType stype) protocol fdArr Of course, indentation is necessary before "_". But this can be compiled with GHC 7.0.1 but cannot with GHC HEAD. I sent feedback to some maintainers of packages. Some quickly fixed it and registered it again. But others did not respond. That is reality. So, my question is why GHC HEAD does not maintain backward compatibility? What are befits for giving it up? --Kazu