Simon Marlow:
On 08/07/2009 22:45, Ian Lynagh 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.
Sounds good to me.
See also http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/118
Ian, would you like to take ownership for this proposal, and start fleshing out the details in a wiki page?
There seems to be support for removing all the libraries in the report. Whether the report also blesses either the Haskell Platform or a set of packages is a separate matter; either way, we still have to extract the existing libraries from the report, and there will be a set of changes to the report necessary to make that happen. The Report should explicitly list all the library entities that it refers to.
I don't mind defining libraries separately, but not defining them at all is problematic unless a core set of libraries isn't rigorously defined somewhere else. Manuel