Re: [Haskell-cafe] blaze-builder and FlexibleInstances in code that aims to become part of the Haskell platform

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Simon Meier wrote:

I think this type-class based interface to select the correct efficient implementation of an encoding is rather nice. However, I don't know if 'FlexibleInstances' and 'FlexibleContexts' are fine to use in code that aims to become part of the Haskell platform. Moreover, I might well overlook some drawbacks of this design.

I forgot to answer your main question :-) I don't have a problem with these extensions being in the Haskell Platform, as the platform currently only targets GHC, but the bytestring package itself might have a higher standard of portability. Have you heard from the 'bytestring' maintainers? Antoine