It's not so much a bug as it is code that is less than clear; while in this case cleaning it up is a good idea for other reasons, I suspect if we used that as a general metric most of GHC would have to be rewritten :)

Great.  I’d be delighted to look at it if anyone is motivated to give a brief standalone summary of the problem (and ideally a proposed solution)

Simon

From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 November 2011 13:56
To: Simon Peyton-Jones
Cc: Malcolm Wallace; libraries Mailing List
Subject: Re: Proposal #3339: Add (+>) as a synonym for mappend

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 05:14, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

If there's a bug in GHC, or a feature request, can someone make a ticket with a standalone reproducible test case, please? I have not been following the twists and turns of this discussion.

It's not so much a bug as it is code that is less than clear; while in this case cleaning it up is a good idea for other reasons, I suspect if we used that as a general metric most of GHC would have to be rewritten :)

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