On Jul 8, 2009, at 17:55 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
1. Just drop the whole libraries section from the report. The Report will still define the Prelude, however.
I'm tending towards (1), mainly because it provides a clean break and is likely to be the least confusing for users: they have one place to go looking for library documentation.
instead, ghc bundled libs say it, replaced now by Haskell Platform libs. but these are de-facto standards, and i think that Report should support it by defining the same set as standard de-jure
Perhaps the real answer is that the Report should bless the Haskell Platform - not any specific version of it. It occurs to me that the dependency might actually go the other way: a Haskell Platform release specifies which versions of the Haskell standard it complies with. (Including H98.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH