17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
4:49 p.m.
Simon Peyton-Jones writes:
I assume that by "standard" library you mean "distributed with GHC and Hugs".
Actually, I meant "part of Prelude.hs". :-) Shipping docon with the compilers would, no doubt, be quite useful. But the much greater usefulness would come from merging the design of the docon core library back into the Haskell standard. In his documentation, Serge gives several compelling reasons, why the class hierarchy he uses is more accurate than the one provided by Haskell '98. (Especially concerning deficits of the "Num" class.) Factoring these changes back into the standard would IMHO be a good idea -- albeit, a lot of work. Peter