28 May
2009
28 May
'09
12:16 p.m.
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Simon Marlow wrote:
Quite. I argued the "no orphan instances in libraries" position on the libraries list last year, here's the start of the (longish) thread:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2008-September/010618.html
I remember. What I propose additionally is, that, when orphan instances are banned, we can allow addition of instances with the A.B.* version range just like this is allowed for all other language elements.
We ought to have a "guidelines for API design" section of the wiki somewhere, so we could put this in it.
That's currently spread across Category:Style.