On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:20, Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org> wrote:

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.

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