On 01/05/10 20:17, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:05:58PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 01/05/10 17:16, Ian Lynagh wrote:
So it seems this is closer to option (2) in my message, because portablebase and haskell2010 overlap, and are therefore mutually exclusive, whereas in (4) haskell2010 and base2010 are non-overlapping - that's the crucial difference.
If they are non-overlapping, how would a new Data.List function be added? Or an existing Data.List function be altered?
In this scenario there would be base as it is now, and base2010 (or whatever you want to call it) that is base minus the modules in haskell2010. So you can add things to base:Data.List, but haskell2010:Data.List must export exactly the API as specified in the report.
So someone using haskell2010+base2010 wouldn't be able to use this new function?
Correct. If you opt to use the Haskell 2010 API, you don't get to see new additions made to those modules, but that's entirely reasonable. Cheers, Simon