26 Apr
2016
26 Apr
'16
7:02 a.m.
2016-04-26 5:39 GMT+02:00 Edward Kmett
We did a similar cleanup pass on base a year or two back.
No objection here.
If base is not compatible with nhc98 anymore, there's a little point to preserve such compatibility on containers. Still, for less fortunate operative systems, it would be nice to have somewhere a list of modules/version actually compatible with Haskell 98. Also, for future reference, it would be nice if such change is introduced as a single-change version, so that we know it doesn't introduce or remove any other functionality except the compatibility.
Code you can't test is kinda hard to maintain forever.
I wonder what can prevent code to be tested with a different compiler... Giacomo