20 Mar
2012
20 Mar
'12
6:14 p.m.
On 21/03/2012, at 2:14 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
The existence of standards is not an answer concerning their "goodness".
Whoever said it was? Not me! But the existence of implementations that conform to standards *IS* an answer concerning 'will this WORK?' I do appreciate that the latest and greatest version of 'base' can do all sorts of things. However, I _don't_ know how to install that so that UHC and GHC will both use it. I'm no different from all the other Haskellers who've been frustrated by Num wanting Eq and Show, which I would have thought was an obviously bad idea from the beginning. I have my own potential uses for Eq-less Nums. But I want it to *work* and to work in more than one Haskell compiler.