Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] hashable-generics

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Clark Gaebel writes: | There's no disadvantage to having the generic functionality in a | separate package, right?

Well for one it means you can't simply write instance Class Type but must write instance Class Type where forEveryMethod = genericForEveryMethod ... and it wouldn't work with the planned generics feature that you could just write data Type deriving Class I for one think conditional APIs are all OK; a form of "progressive enhancement".