On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:05:53AM +0000, John Lato wrote:

From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

On 7 February 2011 12:30, wren ng thornton wrote: > On 2/6/11 4:53 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> >> On 7 February 2011 08:12, Alexey Khudyakov >> ?wrote: >>> >>> Also there is a container-classes package which provide set of type class >>> for containers. >>> >>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/container-classes >> >> Don't use that package: it's broken. ?I did start on a re-write that >> works (and there are similar libraries around that I believe do work), >> but gave up because it was a) too fiddly, and b) I decided that the >> use case I had for them wasn't worth it (as it would just make that >> library more complicated and difficult to use, possibly also less >> efficient). ?If anyone wants it I can certainly send them what I've >> got though. > > Any chance you could push a 0.0.0.1 version which tells people this, so that > they know to avoid it?

Didn't think about that; I'll try to do so tonight.

Perhaps a better approach would be to ask the hackage maintainer (Ross Patterson, if I'm not mistaken) to deprecate container-classes.

Done.