
12 Aug
2007
12 Aug
'07
6:10 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:00:47PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
My concrete example is that I submitted patches to make Gen an instance of Applicative but was told this wasn't ok since it needed to remain compatible with ghc-6.2 or something.
You could do this with ifdefs.
IMOH, if it's part of the core set of packages it should be ok to depend on those packages.
It's not a core package as far as GHC is concerned. Thanks Ian