Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for comments: neither package

On 29 June 2010 15:38, Michael Snoyman wrote:

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:

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On 29 June 2010 15:20, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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As far as I know, the only issue with depending on both is the conflicting orphan Monad instance for Either. Can anyone either confirm or deny this?

Since you're being naughty and using package-qualified imports, it should be OK (in terms of working).

Is naughty simply tongue-in-cheek, or are there detriments to it? You know, besides not all compilers supporting them...

A bit of both. Someone (dons?) had a good discussion on the Haskell reddit about why you shouldn't use them, but I can't seem to find it at the moment (I did find this one, but I seem to recall a better discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/bfcfs/haskells_big_three/c0mhqtg ). Otherwise, the documentation for it discourages its use: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html#packag... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com