On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:20, Yitzchak Gale
As I type this, Edward himself has come out in favor of the original proposal, thus breaking all code based on his own package. So I guess that settles it.
He quite reasonably chose compatibility with the existing ecosystem over dependency on a massive restructuring. Not that that restructuring is a bad idea, but without better language support it's simply not worth the effort. Speaking of which, has anyone formally proposed the class/instance alias stuff for GHC? If so, has anyone stepped in to implement it? Having the tools to actually make this kind of change would be helpful. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms