24 Apr
2008
24 Apr
'08
3:27 p.m.
Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 05:13 schrieb Manuel M T Chakravarty:
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Hence, anything that is *important* to change, we should change now.
Although I can follow your arguments, I thought that the large and disruptive changes should be done for Haskell 2. If they should really be done now, we should also fix a lot of other things. For example, the Num hierarchy, the Functor/Applicative/Monad hierarchy, the fact that there exist Alternative and MonadPlus although we have Monoid, the fact that we cannot have contexts like (forall a. Monoid (m a)) which is the source for the last problem, the fact that we don’t have class aliases, ugly names like fmap and mappend, etc.
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Manuel
Best wishes, Wolfgang