Re: [Haskell-cafe] Platform Versioning Policy: upper bounds are not our friends

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Chris Smith wrote:

Twan van Laarhoven wrote:

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Would adding a single convenience function be low or high risk? You say it is low risk, but it still risks breaking a build if a user has defined a function with the same name.

Yes, it's generally low-risk, but there is *some* risk. Of course, it could be high risk if you duplicate a Prelude function or a name that you know is in use elsewhere in a related or core library... these decisions would involve knowing something about the library space, which package maintainers often do.

If you import qualified then adding functions will never break anything. Cheers, -- Felipe.