On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:29, Mikhail Vorozhtsov <mikhail.vorozhtsov@gmail.com> wrote:

I wouldn't be too optimistic about convincing GHC HQ. Even making Applicative a superclass of Monad can make Haskell98 nazis come after you in ninja suits.

What?! The only significant complaint I've seen here is that the necessary language support for doing so without breaking more or less every Haskell program currently in existence is difficult to achieve.

On the other hand, I suppose if you're sufficiently fanatical, breaking more or less every Haskell program currently in existence might be viewed as a minor issue that you think nobody has any right to be upset about.

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