Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 07:07 -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
This is almost exactly the http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Class_system_extension_proposal; that page has some discussion of implementation issues.
Oh yes, so it is. Did this proposal get discussed on any mailing list? I'd like to see what people thought. Was there any conclusion about feasibility?
Ross proposed this on the libraries list in 2005: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-March/003494.html and I brought it up for Haskell': http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-prime/2006-April/001344.html see also this: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-prime/2006-August/001582.html Unfortunately the Haskell' wiki doesn't have a good summary of the issues; it should. I'll add these links at least. Cheers, Simon