Re: [Haskell-cafe] Playing with ATs again

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Don't forget, GHC is open source: if this lack really was "dumb" and annoying you, there was nothing stopping you from rectifying this situation up until now.

Except that, in the real world, this is actually completely infeasible. Yes, I know it's the basic tenant of OSS that you can modify the program to do whatever you want. But in reality, something like GHC is far too large and complex for this to be a realistic possibility. And this holds for most other nontrivial software too.