On 25 May 2011 22:17, Stephen Tetley
Hi Ivan
Forks are good, no?
The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's "capping" another author's work by bumping up to a major version, causes a significant difficulties even when the original author has gone.
As for wl-pprint, it was a very tidy library in its original implementation - it's a pity it now has name clashes with Applicative. My feeling is that a new library in a new namespace with some attention to new combinator names would be better.
Such as? I'm _hopeless_ at making up names... ;-) Having a new package would require a new name and new module namespace, let alone thinking up new names for combinators... Also, by clashes with Applicative, are you referring to empty and <$> ? I'm not sure if a better name than "empty" can be found; as for <$>, maybe using pretty's notation of $$ and $+$ rather than <$> and <$$> ? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com