On Wednesday 10 September 2003 04:54, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
G'day all.
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
but this might be an issue for others, who have to maintain "legacy" code.
You know a language has made it when we're talking about "legacy" code.
On the other hand, you have to worry about a pure declarative language where support for anything "legacy" is a priority. Just a little bit.
On reflection, I can think of one group of Haskellers who might get a bit upset by such changes. If I'd written (or purchased) a text book which was now full of obsoleted code examples I wouldn't be very happy. But I guess it would be possible to do something too suit users of "old" and "new" Haskell with suitably chosen pragmas or compiler switches without too much difficulty. Regards -- Adrian Hey