Hi Titto,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Pasqualino "Titto" Assini
More in general: what is the right policy for instances definition?
Should the library author provide them, at least for the most common and appropriate classes (at the cost of adding some additional dependencies) ?
Should they go in a separate package?
Should the Haskell Platform team provide some guidance on this point to library authors?
titto
Thanks for changing the subject, I forgot to do that. I have a similar derivation for a Data.Binary instance, but after looking at Text.Internal, I got the impression that it wasn't as efficient as it could be. But yes, in general this boils down to your questions. I do remember someone asking a similar question perhaps a year or so ago. Now that we have Haskell Platform, does that change anything? In particular, I believe Data.Binary is proposed for inclusion in the platform. Regards, Paulo