2016-04-26 5:39 GMT+02:00 Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>:

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