[Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

On 2010-04-24, John Goerzen wrote:

It is a funny thing, because our fundamental libraries *have* had time to settle down, in a sense. In another sense, I must say that the innovations we have seen recently have been sorely needed and are unquestionably a good thing.

Overall, agreed. It still makes it a pain to write to the current standard, because it is moving.

Unicode support in IO,

This was "just" a bugfix in GHC, made more painful by people writing code dependent on the old behaviour.

I guess this is the price of failing to avoid success, to borrow Simon's phrase. And again, not entirely bad.

I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. -- Aaron Denney -><-