On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 06:36:56PM +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
It might be simpler to have Control/Applicative.hs import GHC.Conc and define the instance.
The {-# SOURCE #-} import of Control.Applicative and the accompanying boot file are indeed unfortunate. However, I like having the Functor, Applicative and Monad instances in one place. But I can easily be convinced if more people like it your way.
I would prefer to avoid the import loop.
I just created a new patch that adds the Applicative and Alternative instances for GHC.Conc.STM to Control.Applicative (guarded in a #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ block). Bas