Hello Ross, Friday, November 24, 2006, 6:18:10 PM, you wrote:
Portability: these libs should work on windows and major unix branches, on ghc/hugs/nhc and other proposal-compliant compilers,
Your portability criterion would rule out fgl, mtl, regex-*, Edison, NewBinary, arrows and monads.
you forget to mention Base :) lack of MPTC in nhc/yhc/jhc is a serious problem for libraries portability. what we can do in this part of proposal? i think that we should require H' compatibility instead of H98 one, so require to not use fundeps, but allow MPTC. this means that NHC should be ruled out as non-H' compliant compiler instead of these libs nhc/yhc/jhc can support some of these libs and i expect that these compilers will try its best, but in general lack of compatibility with NHC due to lack of some H' features in this compiler shouldn't prevent us from inclusion library in this set. but when other problems arrives, this may be a stop-mark, because these problems will not be fixed in future NHC versions how about this? of course, i mean current draft of H' - some things may change in final Report -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com