Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and consf

On 9 June 2010 12:11, Jason Dagit wrote:

Or write translator tools for upgrading to the new API :)  Pipe dream?  Maybe.

Too an extent, yes: the types are more generalised so it's going to be difficult to do automatic translations. However, Thomas has demonstrated that you can write any instance of the new class as an instance of the old classes and vice versa just using class methods... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com