Re: [Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 08:48:07PM +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Ross Paterson writes:

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Same major version: any code using fully explicit imports that worked with the old version will work with the new version, in the same way.

By this you mean that additions have been made?

According to these definitions, adding exports would require a new minor version, while adding instances of already exported classes and types would require a new major version.