On 21/03/2012, at 9:06 AM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
On 12-03-19 10:05 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch9.html#x16-1710009
Haskell 2010 is already beginning to be out of date.
Was there any point in me pointing out that the latest release of a well known Haskell compiler downloaded and installed YESTERDAY still conformed to Haskell 2010, not this change? Was there any point in me pointing out that the latest release of the Haskell Platform downloaded YESTERDAY still conformed to Haskell 2010, not this change? Or was I shouting into the wind? The change is a Good Thing. No disagreement there. The latest GHC supports it, and that's a Good Thing. No disagreement there. Some time there will be a new version of the Haskell Platform incorporating new versions of the library and compiler, and that will be a Good Thing too. The point I was making remains valid: right NOW, using current releases of things other than GHC, the odds are that you will have to manually upgrade your system, and (a) you might not know how to do that (as I don't know how to upgrade UHC), and (b) until the change is more widely adopted, your shiny new code will work for some people but not others.