10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
3:31 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Abel
My take is that if a feature is repeatedly asked for (independently), it can't be that bad and should be added...
I strongly oppose this line of reasoning. Every feature has a cost: cognitive (you have to know about it), maintenance, restricting the name space for library authors (and remember that not all Haskell code is on hackage...) etc. Especially with the core language and base, I think the default should be to be conservative. Also, I don't think these kinds of things should be a majority rule. And especially one where the most vocal have the most votes... Erik