12 Jan
2013
12 Jan
'13
9:23 p.m.
On 1/12/13 7:08 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
I agree that this situation is sad, but package authors are the last ones to blame. Instead of needlessly constraining the code we write, it would be much better to update the Haskell standard to reflect the state of modern Haskell.
Indeed. At the very least, age-old things like MPTCs, FlexibleEverything, and RankNTypes should be considered "standard" IMO.
But there doesn't seem to be much interest to work on the new version of Haskell (see the recent thread on the haskell-prime mailing list).
Alas. -- Live well, ~wren