27 Jan
2015
27 Jan
'15
5:51 p.m.
None of these rhetorical questions are satisfactory. I understand the need to iterate on a design and start with a vague specification. But by the time something concrete is figured out, it should be explained. Explaining the iteration process with a few of the code examples would answer a lot of the questions here. In the end, the changes have been explained many times over now, just not coherently in one place.
Greg, if that ticket was (it almost is:) a wiki page, would that be satisfactory? https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9586 I assume it wasn't linked to and advertised enough. Where would we need to link to it, how often (e.g., after each major commit?) and what modifications would be necessary, if it's not clear enough?