28 Apr
2013
28 Apr
'13
11:24 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:59 AM, harry
Dan Doel
writes: However, another thing to consider is that getting rid of data type contexts was accepted into the language standard.
... which means that implementers should be free to "fix" data type contexts however they like, as they are now complier extensions which won't conflict with standard Haskell.
Except that people do build older programs with newer Haskell compilers, and it's bad to "repurpose" a syntax like that because it leads to strange errors. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net