
4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
9:57 a.m.
| lot of elements in it. Having to do an explicit declaration of deriving | (Data,Typeable) for each of them is just a tremendous beat-down no | matter where I do it. I hate to see you beaten down, Alex. Make a feature request. I don't want to make promises, but having a well-specified feature request, perhaps with some other people chiming in and saying what they want, is a good start. Incidentally, for those interested in 'deriving', there's an open question about what the syntax of standalone deriving should be http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/StandAloneDeriving I'd like to get this settled for 6.8. Simon