21 Jun
2013
21 Jun
'13
10:11 p.m.
On 6/21/13 5:12 PM, Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:53:49PM -0400, Carter Schonwald wrote:
I'd support the map=fmap thing,
Does it cause any consequences for existing libraries and programs? Does it break any existing Haskell98 (or Haskell2010) code?
If not: fine. But if yes: please don't do it.
As with the Foldable/Traversable stuff, there's the impediment of ensuring that list fusion still works right. This is hopefully a minor issue and can be easily resolved by inlining/monomorphizing at the appropriate stage; however, it is a technical issue that needs to be addressed by the time we actually implement the change. -- Live well, ~wren