Re: [Haskell-cafe] Splitting off many/some from Alternative

On 12 December 2011 22:39, Antoine Latter wrote:

But now they look as if they are of equal importance with the other class methods, which is not really true.

Maybe, but something like this is best fixed by improving documentation, not by shuffling things around and needlessly breaking APIs. I also agree that if an Alternative instance doesn't make sense it should be removed. The current documentation is indeed very terse indeed. In particular it needs a section on the pitfalls that users are likely to run into (like infinite loops).