On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:36 +0200, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
Haskell is beautiful, but it does have its warts. A Haskell 2.0 could incorporate some non-backwards-compatible changes which would make things a bit nicer. There are tons of useful extensions in GHC which should be included.
From my perspective, someone who rarely uses the more exotic extensions, the two main warts is the module system (I would like to be able to "re-export modules qualified", so the user could import MyGraphicsLib and then have access to, say, Button.new and Window.close which would normally reside under MyGraphicsLib.Button and MyGraphicsLib.Window)
This has been discussed on the libraries list once or twice with a rough consensus but without any further detailed analysis to make sure it really works. It doesn't look as though it's a backwards incompatible change however which is nice. Duncan