On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Smith wrote:

There's a ticket at http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/155,

Thanks! But why create a ticket for the Haskell Platform? This is a change in the base library so we should follow the library submission process[1] and create[2] a ticket in the ghc trac. Regards, Bas [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/newticket?type=proposal&component=libraries/base&milestone=Not+GHC