On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com> wrote:
> There was a discussion period on this about 6 months ago. We're just now
> finally getting it all integrated. I'd rather not add new names for the same
> operations.

As a meta point, I fully sympathize that it can be annoying having old
decisions questioned after the fact, but I think we should still
re-consider them *iff* truly new information is brought forward. I
don't know if that's the case here or not as I didn't follow the
original discussion.


Of course, I wasn't trying to lay down the law. 

Just that it was a rather late amendment and to indicate that I was personally on the other side of the divide.

The proposal spoke about mtl, the fact that it impacts transformers was more realized in hindsight.

http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Proposal-add-state-to-the-MonadState-class-td4841549.html
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5714

At the time I'd said I'd get it in, I hadn't realized how much of it actually fell to Ross as the maintainer of transformers.

-Edward